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He wondered if there was a lost soul there whose slumberings he could disturb and bring it to salvation. He looked down the river, and the next instant his boat was seized as by a strong hand and whirled around and around, and flung far from its course. He remembered the phenomenon at the Forks of the Ohio, and again at Columbus bluff's. With difficulty he found his bearings.
"Talk about your airships, I think the blooming old thing must have taken wings and sailed away," grunted Jerry, still rubbing his wounded shin sympathetically. "But why should they pick out Bluff's gun of the lot?" demanded Frank. "That's easy enough to answer.
So that, everything considered, it was about as well that we did not get our forces on the bluff's of Walnut Hill." The above statement was sent to General Sherman in a letter dated "Chicago, February 5,1876," and signed "John H. Hammond." Hammond was General Sherman's assistant adjutant-general at the Chickasaw Bayou. J. E. TOURTELOTTE, Colonel and Aide-de-Camp.
So that, everything considered, it was about as well that we did not get our forces on the bluff's of Walnut Hill." The above statement was sent to General Sherman in a letter dated "Chicago, February 5,1876," and signed "John H. Hammond." Hammond was General Sherman's assistant adjutant-general at the Chickasaw Bayou. J. E. TOURTELOTTE, Colonel and Aide-de-Camp.
When they came at last over a rough shale outcrop to the highest headland, the river bed lay between its base and a barren waste of sand dunes, with broad grassy regions beyond them spreading southward. The view from the bluff's top was magnificent. Virginia held Juno to the place and looked in wonder at the vast southwest on this strange September afternoon.
So that, everything considered, it was about as well that we did not get our forces on the bluff's of Walnut Hill." The above statement was sent to General Sherman in a letter dated "Chicago, February 5,1876," and signed "John H. Hammond." Hammond was General Sherman's assistant adjutant-general at the Chickasaw Bayou. J. E. TOURTELOTTE, Colonel and Aide-de-Camp.
We never thought to run to the bluff's edge and clamber down the shelving, precipitous sides. Here was the only natural hiding-place, but like children we all ran the other way. When we had come in again with the report of "No enemy in sight," and had shut the door against the rain, I happened to glance out of the east window.
"Then, for goodness' sake, chain up that annihilator of Bluff's before he gets it working overtime. Looks as if he had an eye on it just now, for game is game to the pot hunter, no matter how he gets it, or what it happens to be," growled Jerry, scowling in the direction of the other, who only grinned in reply. "Supper am ready, gemmen.
We stop at a little wharf, where waits a little steamer of uncouth construction; we step in, a steam-whistle breaks the silence of that dewy dawn, and at a very rapid rate we run between high wooded bluff's, down a turbid stream, whirling in rapid eddies. We steam for three miles, and land at a clearing containing the small settlement of Davenport.
"We forgot something, boys, continued the other. "What's that?" demanded Frank, coming to a stand. "Why, when we were about it we ought to have demanded that they return Bluff's dandy, repeating shotgun," said Will. Thereupon Frank broke out into a laugh and turned upon Jerry. "Hear that, will you?" he remarked, as if tickled. "Oh, rats! there's that blessed old gun bobbing up again.
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