perscitia had suggested the notion , as they had no bombs , `` especially if you can get some tents pulled up , and drop them on the pepper guns , '' she had said , and it answered remarkably well - most of the tents bundled up as they dropped , but one luckily unfurled and floated down in a heap atop a company of infantry trying to aim the long-barreled pepper guns , the bayonets poking out of it and making them only worse entangled .