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"Wolf, wolf, wolf!" He was only a little boy, but he was brave and his voice rang clear as a bugle call over the valley, and over the hill, "Wolf, wolf, wolf!" The shepherds and knights and the king himself came running and riding to answer his cry, and as for the gray wolf, he did not even stop to look behind him as he sped away to the forest shades.
The prolonged wail of the bugle, aided by the rising night wind, sent the solemn strains of taps sailing down the dimly-lighted valley, and with staring eyes old Folsom stood gazing after the departing officers, then whirled about toward the tents.
On being dismissed drill, I went to my room, where Higgins began to teach me the "bugle sounds," and another old soldier "the manual drill," and other things; so that I soon found out that, whatever I might think of myself, I had plenty yet to learn. At half-past four we went to tea, each man getting a pint of tea and a quarter of a pound of white bread.
At the beginning, the football captain had pounced on him as the very stuff he needed, and Jim responded as the warhorse does to the bugle. He loved the game and he was an invaluable addition to the team.
Here our stalk began to become really exciting. We did not make any noise threading that wet thicket, and we ascended the opposite slope very cautiously. What little wind there was blew from the elk toward us, so they could not scent us. Once up on the edge of the ridge we halted to listen. After a long time we heard a far-away bugle, then another at least half a mile distant.
We stopped a moment to deliberate on the track we should take. A bugle rang out behind us, and the next instant the report of a cannon thundered in a thousand echoes along the glen. "It is from the hacienda," said Raoul; "they have missed us already." "Is that a `sign', Rowl," asked Lincoln. "It is," replied the other; "it's to warn their scouts. They're all over these hills. We must look sharp."
A sudden, profound silence met his appearance, a shifting of feet, a concerted, bald, inimical stare. "Well?" Gordon Makimmon demanded; "you've read the Bugle, well?" He heard a murmur from the back of the throng, "Give it to him, we didn't come here to talk." "'Give it to him," Gordon repeated thinly. "I see Ben Nickles there, behind that hulk from the South Fork; Nickles'll do it and glad.
A stern, clear bugle call had sounded close at hand to summon some following together for the night. "It is a sign to us as well," said Ford. "I would fain stay here forever amid all these beautiful things " staring hard at the blushing Tita as he spoke "but we must be back at our lord's hostel ere he reach it."
Here it has a very picturesque addition, for the picture that is floating before his vivid imagination is that of a company of soldiers, roused by the morning bugle, casting off their night-gear because the day is beginning to dawn, and bracing on the armour that sparkles in the light of the rising sun. 'That, says Paul, 'is what you Christian people ought to be.
I can't say I like the smell of it, whatever it is, and I don't think this is any good place for me, either." Slipping back as quietly as he had come, Pepper started on his away again. When he had gotten far enough from the place so that, he thought, it would not attract the attention of those there, Pepper sounded a call on his bugle.
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