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When it came to Hale's turn to dismount he could not help at first recoiling from the prospect before him. The trail if it could be so called was merely the track or furrow of some fallen tree dragged, by accident or design, diagonally across the sides of the mountain.
"And our poor boy, Joe," sobbed Mrs Corporal that night, as she sat by the watch-fire, "trampled down and killed, just as I had begun to love him as much as if he had been my own." "Cheer up, old lass," said Joe, wincing as he spoke, for a bullet had ploughed a nasty furrow in one arm; "we don't know yet that he isn't all right. Prisoner, perhaps. Let's wait till morning, and see."
The three cheers rang lustily out upon the still air of the breathless night as the schooner shot with rapidly increasing velocity down the ways and finally plunged into the mirrorlike waters of the bay, dipping her stern deeply and ploughing up a smooth glassy furrow of water fringed at its outer edge with a coruscating border of vivid phosphorescent light.
Every man of them took a certain stretch of furrow to watch, and ran backward and forward with blackened, frayed sacks to beat out the wayward flames that licked treacherously through the smallest break in the line of fresh soil. They knew too well the danger of those little, licking flame tongues; not one was left to live and grow and race leaping away through the grass.
The contracts for the moving of dirt from the intake to the first station had been let and when the first furrow was turned and the first scoop of dirt removed from the excavation, Crowheart all but carried Andy P. Symes on its shoulders. "Nothing succeeds like success," he was wont to tell himself frequently but without bitterness or resentment for previous lack of appreciation.
"Good-by, Aunt," she said, "and thank you ever so much for everything." The man in the street did not appear to know it, but a great crisis was imminent in New York journalism. Everything seemed much as usual in the city. The cars ran blithely on Broadway. Newsboys shouted their mystic slogan, "Wuxtry!" with undiminished vim. Society thronged Fifth Avenue without a furrow on its brow.
The thing's trail the furrow left by its dragging tail! That musky reek was the thing's blood. It was bleeding from the wounds the explosive bullets had made. It was spouting whatever filthy fluid ran in its veins even as it waddled onward, screaming. Five minutes more, and he felt that he was gaining on it. Then, and he was sure of it.
Dane saw that the man was limping and white in face, and asked no more questions. It was evident to him that Courthorne would be where he was most needed, and he did what he could with those who were adding furrow to furrow across the path of the fire.
III. Copyright, 1894, by Harper and Brothers. The Minuteman of the Revolution! And who was he? He was the old, the middle-aged, and the young. He was the husband and the father, who left his plow in the furrow and his hammer on the bench, and marched to die or be free.
The weather had been very fine and gentle, and the sea delightfully plausible, without a wave tide after tide bigger than the furrow of a two-horse plough; and the maid began to believe at last that there never were any storms just here.
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