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"Isn't very cheery news for a fellow knocked out like Jack after making such a plucky fight for his life and saving his lieutenant," answered Bill with a shrug of his broad shoulders. Jack smiled. "If I survived that, I guess I can hear what's troubling you," was his reply. "Well, it's bad news, boys -mighty bad," went on Bill.
They turned to leave the building, and the Colonel had a moment of weakness. "Do you know, Monty," he said, "my daughter is awfully cut up about this business. She is plucky and tries not to show it, but after all a girl doesn't get over that sort of thing all in a moment. I am not saying" it seemed necessary to recede a step "that it would be an easy matter to patch up.
"I expect it's a sprain. I'd better get her boot off and see, what?" "No, we had better take her home first," said Avery with quick decision. "All right," said Piers at once. "I'll carry her. I daresay she isn't very heavy. I say, little girl, you mustn't cry." He patted her shoulder kindly. "It hurts horribly, I know. These things always do. But you're going to show me how plucky you can be.
"It is a very plucky idea, but it wouldn't be right to let you carry it out. You would get hung as a spy, if you were detected." "I don't think there is the least fear in the world of my being detected, in a seaport," Bob said, "and I should think it great fun; but I shouldn't like to try to cross the country. Perhaps we may have a better chance, later on." The captain shook his head.
"The look of the thing is enough to carry out the idea, and they will accept it without question." "To be sure, and in the meantime the plucky young fellow is hustling to get back to the vessel and bring us help."
Fortunately she had hold of the sill, but for a moment her legs hung over; then she pulled herself through, and, falling head first on to the floor, disappeared from sight. The people below relieved their feelings with a faint cheer. "Eh, but she's a bad un," said Mrs. Davy, who was trembling all over. "Well, she's a rare plucky un, at any rate," said a man in the crowd, admiringly.
Plucky independent traders, mostly of Scottish birth, now began to follow the watercourses which led from the rapids of Lachine on the St Lawrence to the country beyond Lake Superior. These men treated with disdain the royal charter of the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1783 a group of them united to form the North-West Company, with headquarters at Montreal.
The proper period for this work is two hours after the cessation of hostilities. But in almost every engagement of the present campaign our stretcher-bearers with their officers have gallantly advanced during the progress of the fighting and attended to the wounded under fire. Such plucky conduct as this merits the warmest praise.
As soon as Lieutenant Alden saw that the other dogs were past doing for, he hurried on to the post with Blue, and with great difficulty saved her life. So Hal and his mother are sole survivors of the greyhounds that have been known at many of the frontier posts as fearless and tireless hunters, and plucky fighters when forced to fight.
The father stood by the bars of the cell and heard the boy's story, and then with tears in his eyes he turned to the jailer and said: "It is a terrible sorrow to have one's boy thus disgraced, but" and his face brightened a little "after all he was monstrous plucky." So Jesus, out of the heart of this petty group of persons snatches a lesson for Christians.
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