"We peppered him, Redwood," he said, and then: "He tried to jump over me, and knocked me down.

But I let him have it with both barrels, and my! how it has hurt my shoulder, to be sure." A man appeared in the doorway.

"I got him once in the chest and once in the side," he said.
"Where's the waggons ?" said Cossar, appearing amidst a thicket of gigantic canary-creeper leaves.
It became evident, to Redwood's amazement, first, that no one had been shot, and, secondly, that the trolley and waggon had shifted fifty yards, and were now standing with interlocked wheels amidst the tangled distortions of Skinner's kitchen garden.

The horses had stopped their plunging.

Half-way towards them, the burst barrel of sulphur lay in the path with a cloud of sulphur dust above it.