sarbacane

The mischievous young men opposite had procured a _sarbacane_ -- vulgarly known as a 'bean-blower,' -- and were shooting torpedoes into Ann

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Heart of heaven; in other cases we cannot fathom the original intention of names such as the feathered serpent, the white boar, _le tireur de sarbacane au sarigue_, and others; and they therefore sound to our ears simply absurd.

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