Whether elongated iron bullets would succeed, remains to be Tried.
At the chosen spot they tether the beast to a stone, and make it a target for their bullets and arrows.
Some savages--as, for instance, those of Timor--when in want of bullets, use stones two or three inches long.
'Oh, I say!' murmured a small sceptic from the crowd, 'it was twenty bullets last time; make it fifty, Teddy!'
Iroquois bullets and tomahawks had killed the Hurons by hundreds, but famine and disease had killed incomparably more.
Indeed, two men fired several shots at us this morning, but the bullets only ruffled our feathers and buried themselves in our stuffing.
Twice the automatic blazed in his face as he closed in, the bullets clearing narrowly--or else he fancied that their deadly cold breath fanned his cheek.