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 ed up through his own heedIessness. The partj had travelled eight or ten. days, liring npoii
 nothing but parched corn. Dan. insisted tha
 a man could walk twenty-five miles .da, through snow npon sparched corn just as vel as upon any other diet ri he only thought 30 feel bound to say that have tried it :ant I don't think So. This person held the sam l opinion. He resolted aeainst s5be parched corn diet, yowing that he would gosto the frs house and get an honest meal, if he was cap ftured for il. sHeweHt to the first house. eb tained the meal, and was captured
 1 After we had travelled fifty miles, erefyboi] said to us. i If you can only find Dan. Ellis l and do just as he tells yon, you will be certail ] to get through sH ,.aafggs7fli -zAESasaF ., < We tdid find DantE Ellis On a Sundaynight
 one hundred and thirty-four. miles from oat lines. greatly broken down. we reached poipi on the road. waited fortWo hours, when alons came Dan Ellis, witt. a party of seventy. men refugees. prisoners, Rebel deserters Union sol diers retnrning from their homes with in 5ths enemy's lines, and escaping Iprisoners About thirty of them were mounted and twenty arm l ed .s' st E 1T q Like most men of action, Dan was q person of few words. When our story had been told him, he said to his comrades :s.ls s.s. flss .ss Boys, here are some gentlemen who have escaped from Salisbury, and who are almost dead from the journey. They are our people They have suffered in our cause. They are going toTt their homes in our linesss We cant ride and let these men walk.gg Get down of your horses. and help them up.',, .. s1 asss Down they came and ID we went and then we pressed along at a terrible pace sss a 3Tss *ssasn* *iss s*eas 2i*
 To-day when we came on the hot track of eight guerrillas, the RebeI-hunting instinct waxed strong within Dan, and, taking eight of his own men, he started in fierce pursuit.- Seven of the enemy escaped, but one was cap tured and brought to our camp prisoner. sss <, Then Dan went to the nearest Enioni house. to learn the news; for every, loyal family in a range of many hundred miles knew and loved him. We, very weary. lay down to sleep ii, an old orchard. with our saddles for pillows. Cor reflections were pleasant We were only sey- enty-nine miles from the Union, lines. We progressed swimningiy, and had even begun to regulate the domestic affairs of the border! aa4
 Before midnight, some one shook my arm. I rubbed my eyes open and looked up There a
 Boys, we must saddle instantly. We have walked right into nest Of Rebels several hundred are within few miles; eighty are in this immediate vicinity: They are iv;ne in ambush for Colonel Kirk and his men. m fl ;s doubtful whether we can ever get out of this. We must divide into. two parties, The foot men must take to the mountains we who are riding, and in much more adaneer--as horses make more noise, and leave so many traces-- must press on atonce, if we ever hope to reach the Union lines. ''sis tfis3 zstastn tssssi
 < The word was passed in low tones Flinpinc our saddles upon our weary horses, we were on our way almost instantly. Nv place was near the middle of the cavalcade. The man iust before me was riding white horse. which en- abled me to follow him with eaSn. -s
 We galloped along at Dan s usual pace, with the most sublime indifference to roads-up and down rocky hills, across streams, throu gh swamps, over. fences--everYwhere but npon public thoroughfares. ,ss.f sa
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 The young lady who is piloting us.''
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 There she was, surely, enough. I could not scrutinize her face in the darkness, but it was said to be comely. I could see that)her form was graceful, and the ease and firmness with which she sat her horse would have. been a lesson for riding. master.
 She resided at the Union house, where Dan had gone for news. The moment she learned his need, she volunteered to pilot him out of that neighborhood, where she was born and bred, and knew every acre.s The cnly aecessi- bic horse lone belonging to Rebel officer, but just then kept in her fathers barn) was brought out and saddled. She mounted, came to our camp at midnight, and was now stealthily guiding us, avoiding farnrhouses where the Rebels were quartered, ,sgoing round their camps and evading their pickets. W n,s Il. sash She led us for seven miles. Then, while we remained in the wood, she rode forward over the long bridge which spannedlt the Nolechucky River, to see if there were any guards uponst went to the first Union house beyond to. learn whether the roads were picketed; came back, and told us thelcoasti was clear Thenashe rode by our long line toward her homeafW We should have given her three ronsing cheers, had it been sale to cheer. hope the time is not far dis tant when her natne may be made public. Un- til the Rebel guerrillas ares adrven. out from their hiding ng1places near her menntainihome, i, will not be prudent
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