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git back to Summerton."
About this time there was a vleiblS


ing to learn our number and resources
Suddenly it occurred to him that h,
had done and learned all in his powel
and that It was time to return. tried
TO head him Off and bring my rail t,
bear upon him. At the same momen
Mick reared:
"Grab their muskets an their ammy
milton! Git back to the fince an foir,
wild 'em as fast rs yez kin. Nivel
moind Amin, but make all the nois,
yez kin, so they'll think we've cleaned
out their skirmlshers an are beginnin
the foight ag'in"
Fully half Of us had had some mill
tia practice with muskets, and all tn,
others had used nuzzle leaders agaiXs
large or small game before the war, So
we made quite q racket, which, to N,
delight, caused the enemy to break int,
companies and move to the rear unde.
the natural impression that their Skin
mishers had been overcome and W.
had resumed business at the old stand
But I was still in chase of the officer
Once ! succeeded in knocking hin
down by tripping him, but he was OF
his feet again in an instant. Suddenl,
! saw Sergeant Mick near me, brandish
ing his severed arm. The sleeve ha(
fallen from IT, and It was really 4
slightly though displaced human mem
Der. l would give half my possessions
and hopes for one like it, for twas s
mass Of muscle, with an elbow Joint n!
big and protuberant as cobblcstonc
Mick raised 1t to the position of 'rea.
cut against cavalry" and landed i
fairly on the back Of the officers neck
The officer instantly landed on his owl
back, and the fight for the fence wa,
over. Then Mick looked across tn,
fence, saw the retiring enemy ant
croaked:
They've throwed up the sponge
Niver moind the killed an wounded
just yet Look quick to the Johnnie!
as was punched wild the flnce rails
Glory be to the poikes av aud Ore
land! An tie the hans an fate nv
thin that's gittin' over bein' groggy."
We obeyed orders and found some
very sick men, whom we bound so they
could not get away when they recover
ed. Then we did our best for tn,
wounded. Mick had already sent an
other mounted messenger in search OF
the regiment to report that the enemy
was retiring, and there was fine
chance for a chase and a charge. Blu,
the regiment was not found. 1t found
us two hours later. The affair appear
ed to have been one of many Of II.
kind, in which an advance of the enc
my, accommodating in force, had beer
reported so imperfecuy by negroes.
from beyond the lines that our regi
ment had taken the wrong road, found
nothing and, like many times before
cursed "the reliable contraband" anG
grumbled at long, hard ride for moth
ing. But they buried the enemy's dead
for us, which was great comfort, for tt
kill a man and then have to bury him
is worse than war. l think it's WORSE
than hell.
Hadn't you better go back to camp
sergeant, now that the fuss is overT
suggested Brainard az we waited fol
the regiment, your wound needs at
tention."
Mick did not seem to hear. He was
leaning against his horse, looking ten
derby at his severed arm, and we heard
him say, as If he were alone with 1t:
"Ah, Norah, little did yez liver know
az the strength We was putin into tha
arn, vhin twas aro,Ind vor svot,
rois+p,
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