Meanwhile, down the road, a furtive figure chuckled furtively in the furze which clasping the squirrel rifle to his or her chest.

"Ouch!" he, she or it stated, as the cock pinched a tender portion of his, her or its chest between the flint and the frizzen. "That there surely did smart a bit. Gonna leave a nasty bruise too," the non-gender-specific individual remarked reflexively.