I had no saddle, as mine had been left at the camp a mile distant, so taking the harness from Brigham, I mounted him bareback and started out after the game, being armed with my celebrated buffalo-killer, "Lucretia Borgia,"a newly-improved breech-loading needle gun, which I had obtained from the government.

Broad-street wharf, load fly boats daily, to Liverpool, Manchester, and all parts of the North.

However, as some of them were desired for their beautiful feather-covered skins, which make most valuable and beautiful caps and muffs, it was decided that Souwanas and Kennedy should take the missionary's breech-loading rifle, in addition to their own guns, and try to secure a few.

We know that yew," resting her eyes on Abe's face, "will prove ter be the 'angel unawares' that we been entertainin', but we don't want yew ter waste yer money on a cart-load o' silk dresses.

When the fresh green plant is brought in, the carts with their loads are ranged in line, opposite these loading vats.

When the bell rang for them to return to work, not one was missing, each bench had its accustomed occupant, and the coal that was poured into the cars at the loading-place was never more free from slate and stone than it was that afternoon.

A steamer's hull below her load-line is pierced in places to admit water for the condensers and ballast tanks.

On 20 per cent of these tests load-compression curves for a 6-inch centrally located gauge length will be taken.

With all these stores on board the ship still stood two inches above her load mark.

In all tests the load-deflection curve will be carried to or beyond the maximum load.

"It's a .35 caliber Remington," continued Wabi, "and it's an auto-loading shell.

In his right hand he carried an old muzzle-loading shotgun.

"The groans which a too heavy load extorts from her."Hitchcock, on Dyspepsy, p. 50.

Stored grain came out of its hiding places at every country cross-roads to beg for cars; stock feeders drove their market cattle unheard-of distances, across the tracks of competing lines, over and around obstacles of every sort, to pour them into the loading corrals of the Trans-Western.

[Footnote 11: TO LOWER THE HAMMER: Being at the loading position at full cock.

When rueful moans along the forest swell Protracted, and the twilight storm foretel, And, headlong from the cliffs, a deafening load Tumbles,and wildering thunder slips abroad; When on the summits Darkness comes and goes, Hiding their fiery clouds, their rocks, and snows; And the fierce torrent, from the lustre broad, Starts, like a horse beside the flashing road

The opening of the waste water pipe should always be above the load water line, as it will otherwise be difficult to prevent leakage through the engine into the ship when the vessel is lying in harbor.

The dragoman and I had gone off to shoot rock-pigeons in one of the caves by the seashore, leaving at home my breech-loading hunting rifle, then a novelty in that part of the world.

Both the wedge and the screw breech-loading apparatus are employed on guns of 7 inches bore (110-pounders) and under.

As, however, we are beginning to copy their application of machinery, I dare say the next generation will take up the question of breech-loading arms.

It had what had once been a loading platform, wagon high, instead of a veranda.

A breech-loading carbine, lately brought across to this country from America as the invention of Mr. Sharpe, was patented by a Mr. Melville, of London, as far back as 1838.

You should have facilities and instruments for loading cartridges.

Added to the efforts of these able engineers was the work of Prof. Michael I. Pupin, of Columbia University, whose brilliant invention of the loading coil some ten years before had startled the scientific world and had increased the range of telephonic transmission through underground cables and through overhead wires far beyond what had formerly been possible.

The loading coolies, 'Bojhunneas'so called from 'Bojh,' a bundlejump into the vats, and receive the plant from the cart-men, stacking it up in perpendicular layers, till the vat is full: a horizontal layer is put on top to make the surface look even.