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Directly you'll double up, pucker, and say that you have the "di-o-ree," and require an ambulance. Orderly!" A sergeant came up and touched his cap. "Take your musket," said the Colonel; "go out to that orchard, and order those men away. If they hesitate or object, shoot them!" A few such colonels would marvellously improve the volunteer organization.
"As a volunteer for life, your highness," replied Eugene; "and, although I have already to thank his majesty for much gracious encouragement, I feel more grateful to him for placing me under your highness's orders, than for any other of the favors he has so kindly bestowed upon me to-day." "I am glad to know it," returned the emperor.
There I was told that there had been a great deal of rifle firing all the morning, and we concluded that the Military recruits or Volunteer detachments were practising that arm. My return to business was by the way I had already come.
The scene presented at the Abbey struck her as magnificent. She had never seen so many private carriages assembled together, and she would not have guessed that the whole county of Hampshire contained so many policemen. There were soldiers also members of some volunteer or yeomanry corps of which the deceased was honorary colonel.
In times of danger age was no bar, the boy of 14 marched side by side with the gray haired volunteer, or remained at home to protect "mother and the children." I well remember once when the neighborhood was thrown into a turmoil of excitement. A large grizzly bear had left his mountain lair and was playing havoc with the cattle and other stock in the valley.
I cannot imagine when it can have taken place. Lord Camden was an odd person to employ. He knows so little of Lord Grey. Rosslyn would have been the natural envoy if it proceded from the Duke; but I think it must have been a volunteer of Lord Camden's. September 2. Read the papers relative to the Danish claims. Canning seems to have decided one case, that of the Danish East India Company, hastily.
"I say, Barney," observed Daniel, after waiting for his escort to volunteer a word or two, "are all their meetings like that?" Mr. Black snorted. "No," he declared; "some are a d d sight worse." It was after eleven when Serena returned. Her face was flushed and shining with excitement. She did not wait to remove her hat, but rushed into the parlor where her husband sat in lonely magnificence.
Colonel Coon, of Wisconsin, a volunteer aide, also rendered good service during the day. W. T. SHERMAN, Colonel commanding Brigade.
We had declared allegiance to the Great Father at Washington; we had taken our stand against the fighting men of our own nation, and the hostile Sioux were worse than enemies to us at this time! "Each chief had only called on his leading warriors, and each in turn reported his failure to secure a volunteer.
But now, incensed at the domineering and unreasonable conduct of his late friend, he fell behind the column and mounted his horse, resolving to seek the Baron of Bradwardine, and request permission to volunteer in his troop instead of the Mac-Ivor regiment.
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