Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-08-12

leaning on his are-lock. He saw me
looking ut him, and shouted out to
know If I were hurt.
GAIL right, jim" I answered.
81 fear Tn here on a wild-goose
chase" said he gloomily, "but it's not
over yet. BY God, I'll have him or
he'll have me !" ' He had brboded so
much on his wrong, had poor Jim, that
I really believe it had turned his head, |
for he had a glare in his eyes as he
spoke that was hardly human. He
was always a man that took even a
little thing to heart, and since "Edie
had left him I am sure that he was no
longer his own master.
1t was at this time that we saw two
single fights which they tell me were
common enough in the battles of old,
before men were trained in masses.
AS we lay in the hollow, two horse
men came squirting along the ridge in
front of US, riding as hard as hoof
could rattle. The first was an English
dragon, his face right down on his
horses name, with a French c%uirassier,
an old, ~gray-headed fellow, laundering |
behind him on a big, black mare Our
chaps set up a hooting as they came
flying On, for it seemed a shame to see
an Englishman ruin like that; but as
they swept across our front we saw
where the trouble lay. The dragon
had dropped his sword and was I'M
armed, while the other was pressing
him so close that he could o get a
weapon. At last, stung maybe by u
hooting, he made up his mind to chance
it. His eye fell on a lance beside a
dead Frenchman, so he Swerved his
horse to let the other pass, and hop
ping off cleverly enough, he gripped
hold Of it. But the other was too
tricky for him, and was on him like
a shot. The dragon thrust up with
the lance, but the other turned and
sliced him through the shoulder-blade.
It was all done in al instant, and the
Frenchman cantered his horse up the
brae. showing his teeth at us over
his shoulder like a snarling dog.
That was one to them, but we scored
n for us presently. They had pushed
forward q skirmish-line whose fire was
toward the batteries IN our right and
left rather than on us, but we sent out
two companies of the N~inety-fifth to
keep them in check. 1t was strange
to hear the cracking kind of noise that
they made, for both sides were using
the rifle. An officer stood among the
French skirmishers, a tall, lean man
with a mantle owe his shoulders, and
as our fellows came forward he ran
out midway between the two parties
and stood as a fencer would, with his
sword up and his head back. I can
see him now, with his lowered eye
lids, and the kind of sheer that he had
upon his face. On this the subaltern
of the Rifles, who was a fine we'll
grown lad, ran forward and drove full
tilt at him with one of the queer,
crooked swords that the riflemen carry.
They came together like two rams, for
each ran at the other, and down they
tumbled at the shock, but the French
man was below. Our nan broke his
sword short off. and took the others
blade through his left arm, but he
was the stronger man, and he man.
aged to let the life out Of his enemy
with the jagged stump of his blade. ]
thought that the French skirmishers
would have shot him down, but not a
trigger was drawn. and he got bach
20 has company with one sword througl
his arm and half another in his hand.
,Coutinued Next weer,
FARGO Potato acreage In Cass
county is less than that of last year
so far as the large potato growers are
concerned, but the smaller growers
are raising about the same mount as
before. Should there be a good crop
prices will not be high even in view
of a smaller ACREAGE. Wheat in Cass
and Richland counties is looking fine.
Corn is backward because of the wet
weather of early spring.
Marmarth.-The e%astbound Olym-