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Again the work was taken, again lost. Ammunition failed the belligerents; and they fought hand to hand in the contested fort with axes, clubs, and clubbed rifles. The sustained ardour of the engagement surprised even those who were engaged; and the butcher's bill was counted extraordinary by Samoans.
It was clear that some quarrel had arisen, and that after the unfortunate men had discharged their muskets they had been clubbed by the natives.
The girls put their heads together, and clubbed to present her with a gold bangle, and she in return left them her blessing, a kiss all round, and a pound's worth of chocolate creams. The school was dull when Fluff went away; she took a place which no one else quite held. She was not at all weak or namby-pamby, but she was a universal peace-maker.
Then followed a hand-to-hand conflict, the Californians lancing and using their pistols with great dexterity, the Americans doing the best they could with their rusty sabres and clubbed guns. They were soon reënforced by Moore's dragoons and Gillespie's battalion, despite the unwilling mules; but the brutes kicked and bucked at every pistol shot and fresh cloud of smoke.
But the numerous calls for family necessities swallow up these little means; and it may with truth be said, that except a single blanket, or a coarse rug, there is rarely to be found any thing in their cabins as covering for the night. The clothes of all are clubbed together to do the office of the blanket and the counterpane. Then, think of the cabins they live in.
One desperate assault succeeded another, while the firing on both sides was so incessant as to make, in Stark's own words, a "continuous roar." At the end of two hours the Americans finally swarmed over the intrenchments, beating down the soldiers with their clubbed muskets.
The officer and the trooper were unable to bring their revolvers to bear, and rushed into the fight with their weapons clubbed. With a single blow Hal crushed the skull of the soldier, and then turned upon the officer who was engaging Anderson.
"Mebbe Wyatt an' them warriors will hang 'roun' thar two or three days afore they find out we've gone." "Not that long. The head of a warrior met Tom's clubbed rifle as we came away, and if they don't find him tonight they certainly will in the morning." "I don't care anyway. That band can't overtake us, an' it can't trail us on a night like this. Thar! They've found the warrior!"
Others of the Confederates ran from the wood, and engaged hand to hand with antagonists, and, in places, a score of combatants met sturdily upon the plain, lunging with knife and sabre bayonet, striking with clubbed musket, or discharging revolvers. But at last the broken lines regained the shelter of the timber, and there was a momentary lull in the thunder.
'I think I saw you at Berners Street the other night? John Fenwick paused. 'Yes he said, awkwardly. 'Have you been attending all the summer? 'Pretty well. There were about half a dozen fellows left in August. We clubbed together to keep the model going. 'I don't remember you in the Academy. 'No. I come from the North. I've painted a lot already I couldn't be bothered with the Academy!
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