Drilling Handcannon

DRILLING HANDCANNON. (See also, DRILLING, RIFLES, SHOTGUNS) To modify a weapon as specialized as the Drilling typically required either great luxury or an equivalent irreverence. It was generally the domain of thieves, as it allowed the looted prize to be hidden far more easily and to be wielded with far more abandon.

Letter to Jodie Cranston
Author: Franklin Kinney
Single loose sheet, 8.5 x 11 in.
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Cousin Jodie,

I am well. I still miss the snow a lot but I like swimming in the river. I'm big enough this year that I can stand up on the tips of my toes and walk all the way across!

I do not think that Auntie Hannah moved away. Uncle Joseph moved away last year and Mommy and Daddy didn't look so sad every day after that. And Uncle Joseph was funnier than Auntie Hannah. Mommy has never forgotten to cook dinner but yesterday I told her I was hungry five times until she made soup.

How are things on your farm? I hope you will come and visit us soon, maybe for my twelfth birthday? Then we can eat that new pecan pie your mommy makes. I bet you can't walk all the way across the river.

I'm still hungry.

Goodbye cousin Jodie,

Big Frankie