But it can outshoot and outkill the blunderbuss, with very little bother.

Think it over.

And, while you're thinking, stop to think, also, that a 'panhandler' doesn't do his work with a knife.

He doesn't try to stab a man to death, for the sake of the few dollars the victim may happen to have in his pockets.

That sort of thing calls for pluck and iron nerves and physical strength.