Show as a sportsman say my dear said as ho drew a gun from the caso and eyed it critically 1 I want you to wake me early in the morning im going a shooting that too sweet ejaculated mrs TU wear my new dress and my saratoga waves where do we go tm going down to the island and probably go as far as the front door grunted mr women doat go shooting its only men all youve got to do is to wake me up and get breakfast when I 1 come home well have some birds wont that be nice chimed mrs Spoon can you catch birds with that thing and mrs endyke fluttered around the improved breech loading shotgun firmly impressed with tho idea that it was some kind of a trap 1 I can kill em with this explained mr that is a gun my dear it a nest with three speckled eggs in it nor a barn with a hole in the roof you stick the cart bridga in here and pull the finger piece and down comes your bird every time well that the greatest thing I 1 suppose if you dont want a partridge you can stick a duck or a turkey on that end too or a fish or a lobster and bring it just as quick yes or you can stick a house or a cornfield or a dog aasted female idiot in there too if you want to snorted mr who said anything about a partridge its a cartridge that goes in there oh ejaculated mrs rather crestfallen 1 see now where does the bird go he goes to night school if he any mure sense than yon have snorted mr look here now and ill show you how it works and whose ideas of a gun were about as as those cartridge half way in the muzzle end and cautiously cocked the weapon and when tho bird sees that he comes and pecks abc it isn t that the funniest and mrs dyke clasped her hands in the enjoyment of her discovery then you put out your hand and catch youve struck it howled mr who had the hammer on half cock and was vainly pulling on the trigger to get it down the idea all you need is four feathers a gas a with your notions you only want a new stock and trip hammer to be a needle gun do you know that dog aasted thing had got to go off before you get a bird fou the birds you dont wait for em to shoot you at homa wo used to always chop their heads off with an ax faltered mrs so would I 1 if I 1 was going after measly old hens retorted mr endyke who managed to the contrivance but when 1 go for yellow birds and sparrows I 1 go like a sportsman while pm waiting for a bird continued mr adjusting the carlidge cart idge at the breech 1 I put the load in hero for safety and when I 1 see a flock J aim and fire bang went the gun knocking the tail feathers out of an eight day clock and plowing a foot furrow in the wait perforating the closet door and culminating mina ting in mr plug hat goodness gracious squeaked mrs oh my mr gathered himself up and contemplated the damage why you keen still ho shrieked want to disturb my aim for and make me lot it off think I 1 could hold back a charge of powder and a pound of shot while a measly woman is scaring it through a gun barrel if it had been a bird how nicely you would have shot suggested mrs soothingly if you should ever aim at a bird catch him sure oh you know what I 1 could do with your information about gunnery you only need a wad in your mouth and a kick like a mule to bo n mountain howitzer if I 1 had your intelligence on sporting subjects id hire out for a shot tower dont you know youve spoiled the dog aasted gun and mr anxious for some excuse to take it back to his friend Speckle who loaned it to him held it out and eyed his wife sternly youve ruined that gun he continued it wont never go off again never mind dear consoled mrs its been off enough and id as lief have some clams as birds you go to bed and we 11 ll try and do without any birds it ever go off again repeated mr as he climbed into his couch a ruined gun and he turned his face to the wall mrs slowly disrobed dis robed having first turned a stream of water into the gun from the faucet and be took her to rest it may not go off again but if it does the neighbors will think the water main had burst with which reflection she began to pat the ear of mr turned over like an earth quake and wanted to know if she done enough mischief without lamming him like a dog aasted blacksmith |