Who Wrote

[Zonie]

"...Here, is where the pistols undergo a preparatory trial, before being sent up for the regular government proof. It is by no means, the dark, mysterious iron-plated room, in which I have been taught to believe that guns are proved: but an ordinary workshop, with two square wooden pipes, fixed horizontally, and open at the end, breast high. I am invited to prove a pistol, by firing it into one of these pipes, which, I am told, afford sufficient protection to the firer in case of a barrel bursting - an event, pains were taken to assure me, of vary rare occurrence. After a little practice, I find that the mere novice may, with one hand, discharge the six rounds as rapidly as the eye can wink."

Who wrote this?
Charles Dickens in HOUSEHOLD WORDS

ref COLONEL COLT LONDON
copyright Joseph G. Rosa 1976
Lionel Leventhal Limited 1976
Fortress Publications, Inc., Stoney Creek, Ontario
ISBN 0 85368 350 6

This was written by Dickens in May 1854 following a tour of the Colt factory in London.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

'as rapidly as the eye can wink'? jeez the wild west should have been his destination with that speed. W.B. would be doing good to fire that fast! :shocked2:

 

[Zonie]

You don't think that maybe he winked 6 times, do you? :grin:

Actually, I posted this here so that all of you members could make points with your wives or impress some of the folks around you at work.

The next time you wife asks, "Are you on the web associating with those hooligans on that muzzleloading place?"
you can answer, "Yes, but don't bother me right now. I'm reading Charles Dickens!!"

It is recommended that you check out what your wife is doing before you tell her this. If she has a mouth full of Pepsi or mashed potatos they won't look good all over the front of the TV.

Then again, telling the folks at work that you've been reading Charles Dickens may get either looks of disbelief, or a blank stare followed by, "Who tha hell is that? or, "Ain't he one of those perverts ah saw on TV the other night?"

Having been forced by my English Teacher to read several of Dickens stories in my childhood I can honestly say the above quote is the first thing ever written by him that I enjoyed.
If I didn't know better, I might even think he was a human.
zonie

 

[Desert Ratxx]

Having been forced by my English Teacher to read several of Dickens stories in my childhood I can honestly say the above quote is the first thing ever written by him that I enjoyed.
If I didn't know better, I might even think he was a human.
zonie

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