Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on October 28, 2002 at 10:58:11 from 195.93.33.13 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: CROSSBOW posted by Dave Thewlis on October 26, 2002 at 20:58:49:
A child's bow would not have the range to get from launch to shore. But a crossbow is much too dangerous for children to play with.
Captain Flint is steering the launch, and he clearly knows just what his elder niece is up to.
I propose that he has loaned Nancy his crossbow, to be used with one of her own arrows, not with a regular quarrel, to be shown to Polly, for this one occasion only.