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And what I saw astounded me; the enemy's baggage wagons were fording the river; his cattle-drove had just been herded across, and the open space was already full of his gaunt cows and oxen. Rangers and Greens pricked them forward with their bayonets, forcing them out of the opening and driving them northwest through the outskirts of the village.
In the dusk of one evening, as he sat wet with the fording of the creek, he said to Peter, "We ought to go, Peter. We ought to pack up and go tonight. Because sometimes I'm afraid of myself, Pied-Bot. I'd kill for her. I'd die for her. I'd give up the whole world, and live in a prison cell if I could have her with me. And that's dangerous, Peter, because we can't have her. It's impossible, boy.
"Law!" exclaimed Polly Ann, nudging me, "it was a lucky thing we run into you in the valley." But presently we left the road and took a mountain trail, as stiff a climb as we had yet had. Polly Ann went up it like a bird, talking all the while to Riley, who blew like a bellows. For once he was silent. We spent two, perchance three, days climbing and descending and fording.
The road was as difficult and dangerous as it was lonely and unfrequented. Lyon and Sybil rode on together in silence, bending their heads before the driving mist, and keeping close to the banks of the river until they should reach the fording place. At length Sybil's anguish broke forth in words. "Oh! Lyon, is this nightmare?
One of the wheel oxen, a black steer which we called "Pop-eye," could be ridden, and I straddled him in fording, laving my sunburned feet in the cool water. The cows were driven over next, the dogs swimming, and at last, bag and baggage, we were in Texas.
Accordingly, leaving sixteen men at Snake River, he set out on the 19th of February with sixteen others on his journey to the caches. Fording the river, he proceeded to the borders of the deep snow, when he encamped under the lee of immense piles of burned rock. On the 21st he was again floundering through the snow, on the great Snake River plain, where it lay to the depth of thirty inches.
Most of the highways were simply rough paths, over which men usually travelled on foot or on the backs of ponies up and down the hills of the country. It was generally necessary to cross rivers by fording, though, where the water was too deep for this, rude and clumsy ferry-boats were provided. Occasionally, over a narrow stream, a frail footbridge would be built.
"The general will get us out of this, and here is where we must cross. The river may run down enough in two or three days to permit of fording. God grant that it will!" "And so say I!" repeated Harry with emphasis. "I mean to hold this place for our army," continued Sherburne. "A reserved seat, so to speak." "Yes, that's it. We must keep the country cleared until our main force comes up.
A small, round, leathern valise, with a few changes of linen, and his coarse frieze great-coat were strapped on behind. Such was a typical example of the "clerical cavalry" who, in the early years of this century, ranged through the wilderness of Canada, fording or swimming rivers, toiling through forests and swamps, and carrying the gospel of Christ to the remotest settlers in the backwoods.
We sat on horseback, waiting and looking on, while the whole savage array went pouring past us, hurrying down the descent and spreading themselves over the meadow below. In a few moments the plain was swarming with the moving multitude, some just visible, like specks in the distance, others still passing on, pressing down, and fording the stream with bustle and confusion.
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