Crossword-Solution: MARLINS 7 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But most astonishing was the quantity of ammunition-cartridges for Lee-Metfords, for Winchesters and Marlins, for revolvers from thirty-two calibre to forty- five, shot-gun cartridges, Joan's two boxes of thirty-eight, cartridges of prodigious bore for the ancient Sniders of Malaita, flasks of black powder, sticks of dynamite, yards of fuse, and boxes of detonators.

Every day they took long rides in various directions, in spite of the unsettled condition of the country--a condition which compelled them always to go armed with their trusty Marlins and Colts--and that is how they happened to be on the Real road at such an opportune time.

Felix was not one to easily forget; and later on he did send out a bulky package to his cousin Tom, which, upon investigation was found to contain three good reliable Marlins for Charley Crow and his boys, just as hard hitting guns as the one Felix himself carried, only of much less value, because the material was along different lines.

These are the =Recurvirostridæ=, composed of the stilts and avocets; the =Scolopacidæ=, the snipes, curlews, yellow-legs, willits, marlins, sandpipers, etc.; and the =Charadridæ=, the plovers.

Sniders, Springfield, Martinis, Marlin, three kinds of Winchesters, three kinds of Mausers, one Mauser carbine, two kinds of Mannlicher, one Mannlicher carbine, and by the Boxers several kinds of Jingals, Sniders, Marlins, and Winchesters.