Hungry for anything of the axe or iron kind." "It would not be a bad plan to get up our howitzer, and rig a carriage for it," said Wade.

"Let's do it." "And Wash's cannon-rifle," said Kit.

"We ought to get that up.

I think it's about time to test that rather remarkable _arm_." "The problem with me is how to mount it," said I.
"I was thinking of that the other day," remarked the captain.

"I've got a big chest below,--an old thing I don't use now: we might make the gun fast to the top of it; then put some trucks on the bottom just high enough to point it out over the bulwarks.