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No wonder that Master C., who had bundled himself towards the end of the deck whereon I was standing, looking, I have no doubt, ruefully upon this acquisition, should exclaim as he saw me-"You have got a revolver there, stranger, and you are in a jolly fix, ain't you now, how to fire it off?"
That was just my difficulty, so I replied meekly, "Can you tell me if it is loaded!"