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Felix Robbins had been elected bugler of the troop, and as there was no regular instrument for him, he had thought to fetch along the fish horn the boys used in playing fox and geese. This he sounded with considerable vim as the khaki-clad lads marched away, with a flag at their head, the scout master keeping step alongside the column. Some of the older people had come to see them off.
Some annoying little depredations had been practiced on the boys, and it needed but a word of suspicion to inflame all their minds against the surly Englishman as the unknown perpetrator. The feeling intensified, until about half of the company were in a mood to kill the Bugler outright.
T. M. Mitchell, slight wound in the eye; Private R. Cook in the arm; Private G. Barbour, slight scratch in the head; Private G. W, Quigley, flesh wound in the arm; Private J. Marshall in the calf; Private H. Wilson, slight wound across the back; Bugler, M. Vaughan, in the finger; Private Scovell, slight flesh wound; Private Stead, slight flesh wound; Private Cantwell. The 90th Battalion: Corp.
Half the regiment was on board the "Nancy," and, after breakfast, the men were divided into three watches, of which one was always to be on deck, for the ship was very crowded, and there was scarcely room for all the men to be below together. The boys were in the same watch, for the day previous to starting Tom had been appointed bugler to the 2d Company, Peter to the 3d.
Having set off in the small hours of the fourteenth, accompanied by a bugler and two Cossacks, Balashev reached the French outposts at the village of Rykonty, on the Russian side of the Niemen, by dawn. There he was stopped by French cavalry sentinels. A French noncommissioned officer of hussars, in crimson uniform and a shaggy cap, shouted to the approaching Balashev to halt.
When the line was formed in the Plaza, Zagonyi noticed the bugler, and approaching him said, "In the midst of the battle you disobeyed my order. You are unworthy to be a member of the Guard. I dismiss you." The bugler showed his bugle to his indignant commander; the mouth-piece of the instrument was shot away. He said, "The mouth was shoot off.
There's a blessed marmalade factory somewhere about, and we are going to mind it whilst the British Tommy does the fighting." "Marmalade be d !" chirruped a voice down the lines. "Think they'd trust us to look after anything so important?" "Oh, you're a blessed prophet, you are," snarls the little bugler. "P'raps you'll tell us what our game is." "Easy enough, little 'un.
Bullets whistled all about the camp, ripping through the tents and killing and wounding the animals. The Guides returned the fire with steadiness, and, as the shelter trench they had dug in front of their section of the line was higher than at other parts, no officers or men were hit. At ten o'clock a bugler among the enemy sounded the "Retire," and the fire dwindled to a few dropping shots.
In summer he moves to the open, boggy ground around shallow lakes where moss covers the ground, and on this he lives. "He is a great wanderer, hence his name Wanderhoof. Mrs. Caribou has antlers, wherein she differs from Mrs. Lightfoot, Mrs. Flathorns and Mrs. Bugler. Wanderhoof is fond of company and usually is found with many companions of his own kind.
SGT. E. P. TROMBLEY, "A" Co., 339th Inf. CORP. H. T. DANIELSON, "A" Co., 339th Inf. CORP. J. FRANCZAC, "A" Co., 339th Inf. BUGLER C. J. CAMPUS, "A" Co., 339th Inf. MECH. A. J. HORN, "A" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. J. A. NEES, "A" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. ARNOLD W. NOLF, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. SGT. H. H. HAMILTON, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. PVT. BERGER W. BERGSTROM, "A" Co., 310th Engrs.
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