"Would you have my blood upon you?
Why do you want to kill me ?" "Why did you try to kill me ?" I answered, covering him.
"I try to kill you! Are you mad?
Listen, for your own sake.

I sat down on the bank yonder waiting for the moon, and, being tired, fell asleep.
Then I woke up with a start, and, thinking from the sounds that a tiger was after me, fired to scare it.

Allemachte! man, if I had aimed at you, could I have missed at that distance ?" "You did not quite miss, and had I not stepped to the left, you would have blown my head off.

Say your prayers, you dog!" "Allan Quatermain," he exclaimed with desperate energy, "you think I lie, who speak the truth.

Kill me if you will, only then remember that you will hang for it.