Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-03-11

Z Olrus as BOY at Snorrldge Bottom,
l. think what poor, ignorant, low-placed
9 private soldier ] was.
9 1t was only for half minute or so.-
a A man can't at all times be quite maste
e of himself, and it was only for a hal
S a minutes or so. Then l up and wen
V to my hut, and turned into my ham
E mock, and fell asleep with wet eyelash
: es, and sore, sore heart. just as
: had often done when was a child, ant
4 had been worse used than usual.
| slept Gas child under those sircum
! stances might very sound, and yet yer,
J sore at heart all through my sleep.
, was awoke by the words, He rs dc
| termined man. / had sprung out o
hammock, and had seized my firslock
J and was standing on the ground, saying
the words myself. 'He is determined
man. But, the curiosity of my state
/ was, that / seemed to be repeating
them after somebody, and to have
been wonderfully startled by hearing
them.
As soon as came to myself, / went
out of the hut, and away to where the
guard was. Charker challenged: who
goes there?' a friend Not Gill;
says he, as he shouldered his piece
Gill, says l. why, what in the deuce
do You do out of your hammock?' says
he. TOO hot for Sleep says |; lis all
right?' Right says Charker, yes.
yes; all's right enough here; what should
be wrong here?' it's the boats that we
want to know of. Except for fire-flies
ltwinkling about, and the lonesome
lsplashes of the great creatures as they
drop into the water, there's nothing
going on to ease mans mind from the
boats
The moon was above the sea, and had
risen, | should say, some half-an-hour.
As Charker spoke, with,his face towards
the sea, /, looking landward, suddenly
laid my right hand on his breast, and
said, Don't move. Don't turn. Don't
raise you voice! You never saw NAL
tese face here:'
No. What do you mean2' he asks
staring at me. av
Nor yet an English face with one eye
and patch across the nose?'
No. What ails you? What do you
meant
| had seen both, looking at us round
the stem of cocoa-nut tree, where the
moon struck them. had seen that Sam
DO Pilot, with one hand laid on the body
of the tree, drawing them back into the
heavy shadow. / had seen their naked
cutlasses twinkle and shine, like bits of
the moonshine in the water that had got
blown ashore among the trees by the
light wind. had seen it all, in a mo-
msnt. And l saw in moment las any
man would,) that the signalled move of
the pirates on the mainland was plot
and feint; that leak had been made
to disable the sloop that the boats had
been tempted away, to leave the Island
unprotected {; that the pirates had landed
by some secreted way at the back and
that Christian George King was doub-
le-dyed traitor, and most internal vii
lain.
l considered, still all in one and the
same moment, that Charker was brave
man, but not quick with his head and
that Serjeant Droocc, with much bet
ter head was close by. All | said to
Charker was. 81 am afraid we are be-
TRAPPED. Turn your back to the moon
| light on the sea, and cover the stem Of
the cocoa-nut tree which will then be
right before you, at the height of a mans
heart. Are you right -
-" am right" says Charker, turning
instantly, and falling into the position
with nerve of iron; and right ant left
Is it CLIP.
A few seconds brought me to SERGEANT
Drooce's hut. He was fast asleep, and
being heavy sleeper, had to lay my
hand upon him to rouse him. The in
slant / touched him he came rolling out
of his hammock, and upon me like IT,
ger. And tiger he was, except that
he knew what he was up to, in his ut
most heart, as well as any man.
had to struggle with him pretty
hard to bring him to his senses, painting
all the while flor he gave me .
breather,) SERGEANT, | am Gill Davis.
Treachery! Pirates on the Islandn
The last words brought him round,
and he took his hands off. i have seen
two ofthem within this minute said /.
And so l told him What had told Har-
ry Charker
His soldiery though tyrannical head
was clear in an instant. He didn't
waste one word of surprise. Order
the guard says he, ito draw off quiet
ly into the Fort (They called the ell
closure | have before mentioned, the
Fort, though it was not much of that
Then get you to the Fort as quick as
you can, rouse up every soul there, and
fasten the gate. ! viii bring in al
: those who are up at the Signal Hill. i
we are surrounded before we can ioiI
you, you must make a sally and cut III
, out if you can. The word among oul
men is, Women and children!'
He burst away, like fire going before
the wind over dry reeds. He reused W
the seven men who were off duty, anC
had them bursting away with him, be
fore they knew they were not asleep.
J reported orders to Charker, and ran t.
the Fort, as l have never run at any
other time in all my life: no, not even il
: dream.
The gate was not fast, and had ~
good fastening; only a double wooded
bar, poor chain, and abadlock Those
: | secured as well as they could be Sc
S cured in few seconds by one pair o
t hands, and SO ran to that part of tn
building where Miss Maryon lived.
a called to her loudly by her name unit
she answered. then called loudly a,
1 the names / knew-Mrs. Macy (Mis
|, Maryon's married sister, Mr.. Macy
t Mrs. Venning, Mr.. and Mrs. Fisher
1 even Mr.. Mr.. and Mrs. Pordage. The