A youth who can't hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his grandmother every time, at a hundred.

三刻钟内用加特林机枪在三十码处不能击中一个教堂的年轻人，却可以站在百码开外，举起一把空膛的旧火枪，趟趟把祖母当靶子击倒。

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Sgt Maj Nick Shipton said it would take up to five hours to get the gun off the carriageway and onto a truck.

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