The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-08-29

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expect no quarter"
damn your quarter" said Benta-
min, rising from the log on which he
was seated. "If you call me Penguh-
Ian, YOU calls me by the name OF the
man on whose land, dye see, l hove
into the daylight; and he was q gen
tleman; and that's more than my |
worst enemy will say of any oil the
family of Benjamin Stubs"
"Send the warrant round to me-
and I'll put in an alias" cried Hiram
from behind his cover.
"Put in a jackass and you'll put IN
Yourself, Mister Doo-but-little, shout
ed Benjamin.
81 give you but one moment to
yield in" cried Richard. "Benjamln
Benjamin this is not the gratitude l
expected from you" ii
IL tell you, Richard Jones" said
Natty, "though the canister the gal
brought be lost, there's powder enough
in the cave to lift the rock you stand
on. I'll take off my roof if you don't
hold your peace"
81 think it beneath the dignity OF
my office to parley further with The
prisoners" the sheriff observed to his
companion, while they both retired
with precipitancy that Capt. Hollis
ter mistook for the signal to advance.
"Charge baggonotP shouted the
veteran, "march !" l
Although this signal was certainly
expected, it took the assaiIed little
by surprise, and the veteran approach
ed the works, crying, courage, my
brave lads give them no quarter I'M
less they surrender"
Much of the success Of an attack
made by irregular soldiers depends
on which way they are first got in
motion. In the present instance 1t
was retrograde, and in less than
minute the whole weight of the attack
from the left rested on the prowess OF
the single arm of the veteran. Ben
jamin received a severe confusion
from the recoil of his gun, which he
had fired, and which had produced
the retrogade movement in the at
lacking party. Capt. HOLSTER avail
ed himself of this circumstance to
scramble over the breast-work, and
obtain footing in the bastion-for
such was the nature of the fortress, as
connected with the cave. The moment
the veteran found himself within the
works Of his enemy, he rushed to the
edge of the fertilization, and waving
his sabre over his head shouted
"VIctory! come on, my brave boys,
the works our own !"
All this was perfectly military, and
was such an example as gallant Off
Ger was in some measure bound to ex-
hibit to his men; but the cutlery was
the unlucky cause of turning the tide
of success. Natty, who had been
keeping a vigilant eye on the wood
chopper, and the enemy immediately
before him, wheeled at this alarm, and
was appalled, at beholding his comrade
on the ground, and the veteran stand
ing on his own bulwark, giving forth
the cry of victory The muzzle Of
tbs a lQRg lii Fjfe ca BEsi There was
moment when the life of the old sol
der was in great jeopardy; but the
object to shoot at was both too large
and too near for the Misunderstanding,
who, instead ofpulling his trigger, APP
piled the gun to the rear Of his enemy
and by powerful shove sent him out
side of the works with much greater
rapidity than he had entered them.
The spot on which Captain HOLSTER
alighted was directly in front, where,
us his feet touched the ground, 80
steep and slippery was the side of the
mountain, it seemed to recede from
undeers them. His motion was wen.
derfully swift, and 50 irregular, as ut
terly to confuse the faculties of the
old soldier. During its continuance,
he supposed himself to be mounted.
and charging through the ranks Of his
enemy. At every tree he made a
blow, of course, as at foot soldier
and just as he was making the cut
est. George" at half-burnt sapling,
he landed in the highway.
When the Misunderstanding saw his
enemy fairly under Roadway, as Ben
jamin would express it, he gave his at
tention again to the right wing Of the
assailants. 1t would have been easy
for Kirby, with his powerful frame, to
have seized the moment to scale the
bastion, and, with his great strength,
to have sent both its defenders in pur-
suit of the veteran but hostility APP
peared to be the passion that the
wood-chopper INDUCED the least in at
that moment, for, in voice that was
heard even by the retreating left wing,
he shouted
''Hurrah we'll done, captain keep
it up how he handles his bush-hook
he makes nothing of sapling!" and
such other encouraging eXclamations
to the flying veteran, until, overcome
by his mirth, the good-natured fellow
seated himself on the ground, kicking
he earth with delight, and giving vent
o peal after peal Of laughter
Natty stood all this time in a mem
acing attitude, with his rife pointed
over his breast-work, watching with
a quick and cautious eye the least
movement of the assailants. The out
cry unfortunately tempted the ungov-