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... rifle when I was a young man in America , and I have got down a rifle for my own use . I do not want you to speak about what we are doing to any one . We shall keep our rifles at a cottage near where we shoot , and no one need know ...
... rifle when I was a young man in America , and I have got down a rifle for my own use . I do not want you to speak about what we are doing to any one . We shall keep our rifles at a cottage near where we shoot , and no one need know ...
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... rifle ; and so they started off to their shooting ground . Here their father instructed them in the use of their revolving carbines , and then , after some practice with caps only , allowed them to fire a few shots each . The firing was ...
... rifle ; and so they started off to their shooting ground . Here their father instructed them in the use of their revolving carbines , and then , after some practice with caps only , allowed them to fire a few shots each . The firing was ...
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... rifles , and ammunition . There was a number of canisters with tea , coffee , sugar , salt , and pepper ; a sack of flour ; some cooking pots and frying pans , tin plates , dishes , and mugs ; two sacks of coal and a quantity of ...
... rifles , and ammunition . There was a number of canisters with tea , coffee , sugar , salt , and pepper ; a sack of flour ; some cooking pots and frying pans , tin plates , dishes , and mugs ; two sacks of coal and a quantity of ...
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... rifles in our hands , entered the house . " Pepita received us very warmly , and busied herself assisting the old woman to get us something to eat ; after which she and Rube began love - making , and it really seemed as if the girl ...
... rifles in our hands , entered the house . " Pepita received us very warmly , and busied herself assisting the old woman to get us something to eat ; after which she and Rube began love - making , and it really seemed as if the girl ...
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... the exclama- > tion , " Trapped , by thunder ! " and then fell flat on his back , shot , I believed , through the head . ' I rushed to my rifle , seized it , but before I could get it to my shoulder it was knocked from my hand.
... the exclama- > tion , " Trapped , by thunder ! " and then fell flat on his back , shot , I believed , through the head . ' I rushed to my rifle , seized it , but before I could get it to my shoulder it was knocked from my hand.
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