Jules Verne

Robur the Conqueror Jules Verne

BANG! Bang!The pistol shots were almost simultaneous. A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards awayreceived one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all thesame. Neither of the adversaries was hit. Who were these two gentlemen? We do not know, although this would be anexcellent opportunity to hand down their names to posterity. All we can say is that theelder was an Englishman and the younger an American, and both of them were oldenough to know better. So far as recording in what locality the inoffensive ruminant had just tasted her lasttuft of herbage, nothing can be easier. It was on the left bank of Niagara, not far fromthe suspension bridge which joins the American to the Canadian bank three miles fromthe falls. The Englishman stepped up to the American."I contend, nevertheless, that it was 'Rule Britannia!'"