In the hand may be borne a bell- mouthed blunderbuss; or, better still, a long single-barrel gun with an ounce bore.

We were cantering up the oak-sentried avenue to that door which Gilbert Stair had once sought to keep against us with his bell- mouthed blunderbuss.

A few bronzed bandits posted abreast of each mast kept them there by the menace of bell- mouthed blunderbusses pointed upwards.