Here are the quotations for this week (April 22nd to 28th)
1. The old Tower musket went off with a bang, and a young
buffalo bellowed in pain.
'More sorcery!' shouted the villagers. 'He can
turn bullets. Buldeo, that was thy buffalo.'
2. …There
were seven native policemen in Tibasu, and four crazy smooth-bore muskets among
them. All the men were gray with fear, but not beyond leading. Michele dropped
the key of the telegraph instrument, and went out, at the head of his army, to
meet the mob....
3. ...He showed me his weapon - a Tower musket
bearing date 1832 and the stamp of the Honourable East India Company....A
diabolical inspiration came to me. One of the brats, a boy about eight years
old, was watching me as he sang. I pulled out a rupee, held it between finger
and thumb, and looked - only looked - at the gun against the wall...he held out
his hand for the money, and then slid the gun to my hand...'
The sources of last week's extracts (Apr 15th to 21st) are as
follows:
1. ('...Hark ye, Ben. Here is the sun going up to over-run and possess all
Heaven for evermore...) This is from "Proofs of Holy Writ".
2. ('...Then he wrote, muttering:-
"the little smoke
of a candle that goes out". This is from "Wireless", in A
Diversity of Creatures.
3. ('...Can't you imagine the sunlight just squeezing through between
the handle and the hole and wobbling about as the ship moves?'...) This is
from "The Finest Story in the World" in Many Inventions.
Good wishes to all., John
R