Excerpt from Fishers of Men In the course of their walk David drew the Kid into a wood and said to him quietly, as if he had brought some thing good to eat, for which he was groping in his pocket, D'ye see that? That was a pistol with two barrels, of the more ancient sort, throwing a ball three times the diameter of that of a modern repeating rifle. All this happened some few Excerpt from Fishers of Men In the course of their walk David drew the Kid into a wood and said to him quietly, as if he had brought some thing good to eat, for which he was groping in his pocket, D'ye see that? That was a pistol with two barrels, of the more ancient sort, throwing a ball three times the diameter of that of a modern repeating rifle. All this happened some few years ago, and they hang such pistols on walls now. They were common then, and used for killing things.