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The Ivory Trail

CHAPTER TWO
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"Goons?
You gentlemen want goons?
I have the goon what settled the hash of Sayed bin Mohammed--here it be.

This other one's the rifle--see the nicks on her butt!--that Kamarajes the Greek used.

See 'em--Arab goons--slaver goons--smooth-bore elephant goons--fours, eights, twelves--Martinis--them's the lot that was reekin' red-hot, days on end, in the last Arab war on the Congo, considerable used up but goin' cheap;--then here's Mausers (he pronounced it "Morsers")--old-style, same as used in 1870--good goons they be, long o' barrel and strong, but too high trajectory for some folks;--some's new style, magazines an' all--fine till a grain o' sand jams 'em oop;--an' Lee-Enfields, souvenirs o' the Boer War, some o' them bought from folks what plundered a battle-field or two--mostly all in good condition.

Look at this one--see it--hold it--take a squint along it! Nineteen elephants shot wi' that Lee-Enfield, an' the man's in jail for shootin' of 'em! Sold at auction by the gov'ment, that one was.

See, here's an Express--a beauty--owned by an officer fr'm Indy--took by a shark 'e was, in swimmin' against all advice, him what had hunted tigers! There's no goon store a quarter as good as mine 'tween Cairo an' the Cape or Bombay an-' Boma! Captain Cook's the boy to sell ye goons all right! Sit down.


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