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"Yes, sir, it's a thick 'un," growled old Dick; "and if I was in command o' this here expedition, I should give orders for all the Jacks to out cutlashes and cut the fog in pieces, while the sogers and marines forked it over with their bay'nets."
"Here, files two and four support one and three. Hold your fire till they're close in, and then receive 'em on your bay'nets." The two men who were chafing our deadened ankles sprang to their places, while my brother reached out of the side of the wagon and dragged in two rifles, evidently their own, and Denham and I cocked the revolvers we had thrust back into our breasts.
Anyhow, it's fixed bay'nets, my lad; but I wonder whether the tool would go in. Phew! What does that mean? This is a blessed unked place, and it's getting darker and darker. It aren't fair to a British soldier to put him on a job like this." As the man spoke he looked sharply to right and left and out into the river, fixing his bayonet the while. "Do you hear that, you beggars?
"By der goodness o'God I done lived ter waltz on der citadel green and march down a ile o' soldiers in blue, in der arms o' me husban', and over me haid de bay'nets shined." "I done lived up all my days and some o' dem whut mighta b'longed ter somebody else is dey'd done right in der sight o' God." "How I know I so old?" "I got documents ter prove it."
The words had hardly passed the subaltern's lips when he felt a sudden snatch and a wallow in the water as if Peter had stepped out of his depth; but the lad recovered himself directly and stood firm, panting. "All right, sir," he whispered. "Bay'nets!"
And two on 'em made a rush for it and we caught 'em just like's we was terriers by an oat-rick; we had to be main quick. 'Twere like pitching hay. And then three more, and then more. And none on us uttered a word. "An' when it wur done and we had claned our bay'nets in the straw, Capt'n 'e said, 'Men, you ha' done your work as you ought to ha' done." He paused for a moment.
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