Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-10

| shot my man through the heart.
some duty l told her to be ready t,
hand us the ammunition after the frs
| volley.
The guerrillas came on, every mar
! holding n carbine. When they had GOV
cred third of the distance, saw that
| Buck was about to fire out of turn, anC
/ was obliged to speak to him some
what sharply. l think the advancing
men heard me, for they stopped and
consulted. The captain, standing be
low, called to them to go on. and sep
arating so as to leave a dozen yards
between each man, skirmish fashion
they started again, watching eagerly
for sight of something to fire at. AZ
firing would not serve. | gave another
"Ill take the left man, Miss Stan
forth the center, Buck the right
There was no response. All were too
intent on the work before us to speak.
| permitted the men to come within a
hundred yards, when, taking deliberate
aim with the rest, | shot my man
through the heart. In another mo-
ment Helen's rifle cracked, and the
center man dropped. Buck, who was
excited, fired wild and missed alto
gether. Ginger lost his head COM
pletely and did not fire at all. AS Gin
gers courage deserted him Jacks came
to her all of sudden.
"Why don't yo' shoot, Ginger!' She
cried, with flashing eyes. Snatching
his gun and aiming it at the remaining
man, who was rapidly getting down
the declivity, she sent him the rest OF
the way with limp. Two men were
put out of the fight and the third dis
abIed.
by golly." cried Buck, "we licked
'em. didn't WEI"
thought it best not to discourage
him by telling him that this was only
a preliminary skirmish, but asked Jack
for the ammunition, and we all reload
ed
The wounded man went back to the
captain, who appeared greatly agltated
over the result. He was evidently sur
prised at the reception of his searching
party. The men who had gone to the
tanks, hearing the firing, rejOined their
leader, and two men who had been In
the rear came forward.
Heaven preserve US! The captain has
started up the slope at the head OF
storming party of eight men.
l was appalled,. We had but four
guns and after firing a volley must re-
load before firing another. we couid
not expect to disable more than four
men at the first fire; then the remaining
four would be upon us before we could
reload. In quick tones l gave the or
der:
IAN load. I'll fire." i
With that l let drive and dropped
man. Then, throwing down my gun,
I took Helens and dropped another.
Ruck handed me his, and i dropped q
third.
"By iiminyr' cried Buck, exposing
his head to see better. "Aint 70 pui-
" shot?' Ping, went bullet within
an inch of his ear, and he ducked.
Keep down. cried as the lead rat
fled against the rocks in front OF US,
and fired the fourth gun, again hitting
NV man. though only winged him-
Indeed, / believe he dropped to evade
The fire. BY this time the first gun had
been reloaded, and l took aim at the
.aptain. | was sure / hit him, but he
anne on. Taking the next gun now
,eady. | fired at him again, but just as
did so one Of the men stepped in
'ront of him and received the sho''
rhis finished the assault. The men
,roke and fled and before l could get
mother shot were far back toward the
POSITION from which they had started.
rrIApTEP MIL