It was a dry and yellow pea.

Otto, stepping up to the target, caused Squintoff to extract his arrow from the bull's-eye, and placed in the orifice made by the steel point of the shaft, the pea which he had received from the old woman.

He then came back to his place.

As he prepared to shoot, Helen was so overcome by emotion, that 'twas thought she would have fainted.

Never, never had she seen a being so beautiful as the young hero now before her.
He looked almost divine.