Description
We had never seen him before. He wore in his belt an old original Allen revolver such as irreverent people called a pepper-box. Simply drawing the trigger back cocked and fired the pistol. As the trigger came back the hammer would begin to rise and the barrel to turn over and presently down would drop the hammer and away would speed the ball. To aim along the turning barrel and hit the thing aimed at was a feat which was probably never done with an Allen in the world. But George's was a reliable weapon nevertheless because as one of the stage-drivers afterward said If she didn't get what she went after she would fetch something else. And so she did. She went after a deuce of spades nailed against a tree once and fetched a mule standing about thirty yards to the left of it. Bemis did not want the mule; but the owner came out with a double-barreled shotgun and persuaded him to buy it anyhow. It was a cheerful weapon-the Allen. Sometimes all its six barrels would go off at once and then there was no safe place in all the region round about but behind it.
Features
ISBN:
9781484140116
Author:
Mark Twain
Publisher:
STASSEN BOEKWINKELS