I've cleared it out: it's all ready for the powder.

What have you got for a slow match ?" Donovan had brought a bit of rope, which he picked to pieces, while Kit and Raed sifted in the powder.

The _tow_ was then laid in a long trail, running back some two feet from the crack.
"Now be ready to shoot when the blast goes off," advised Raed.

"He may jump out and run.

Palmleaf, you keep Guard back." The rest of us took our stand off thirty or forty yards, and, cocking our guns, stood ready to shoot.