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Again he directs his eyes forward; they slowly traverse that malign and awful crest. He addresses a calm word to his bugler. Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la! The injunction has an imperiousness which enforces it. It is repeated by all the bugles of all the subordinate commanders; the sharp metallic notes assert themselves above the hum of the advance, and penetrate the sound of the cannon.
These words caught the ear of the military captain on board, who holloed out from below, "What did you say about a Frenchman?" "Why, that if it gets clear, we may have a bit of a fight; for I see there is a Frenchman ahead," replied the sea captain. "Then," said the soldier, "I had better get my men ready. Sergeant, get the bugler! Sound to arms! Call the drummer, and tell him to beat to arms!"
The tug accompanied us to our anchorage, then the committee came on board. The ceremony of presentation was rather picturesque. The visitors gathered on the bridge, the ship's bugler sounded the assembly, and in obedience to the call we lined up on the forward deck. We wore the white duck service uniform, including trousers, jumper, and cap.
"Oh, he had 'cold feet' a few days after we left New York, and wrote to his friends to get his discharge," said "Bill." "Got it and quit two weeks after we left New York, the duffer," added "Hay." The "Yankee" still steamed on into the bank of fog. "Cupid," the ship's bugler, began to play the call for general quarters, but was stopped by a sharp command from the bridge. What was it all about?
The transport on which I went to Porto Rico, in the summer of 1898, carried, among other troops, a battery of light artillery. It had an unusually good bugler, and his sounding of "taps" on those soft, starlit nights remains with me as one of the sweetest sounds I have ever heard. The shrieks, squalls, and roars of those opera people were in a wholly different class.
Before the Union column had reached the position assigned to them, the lieutenant in command had sent his bugler into the forest to sound the retreat for the portion of the company pursuing the riflemen. As he returned, the officer shouted at him to give the signal for the charge, and his men promptly responded to it. The fighting then became furious on both sides.
The example was followed by his fellows, and the bugler, lifting his instrument to his lips, gave one long well-sustained blast. It rang across the waters gallantly. It returned in a few seconds with such unearthly sweetness, as though the spirit of the departed sound had become heavenly, and revisited the place where it had expired. Fanny and Edward listened breathlessly.
Tom Scudamore, they call him." "I guessed as much," Captain Manley laughed; "I knew they would not be long here without a fight. Who was the other?" "Well, sir, I almost thought it must be a mistake when they told me, seeing they are so unequally matched, but they all say so, so in course it's true the other was Mitcham, the bugler of No. 3 Company."
It was in the dim twilight of a hazy morning, that the bugler of the 8th aroused the sleeping soldiers from their miserable couches, which, wretched as they were, they, nevertheless, rose from reluctantly so wearied and fatigued had they been by the preceding day's march; not one among the number felt so indisposed to stir as the worthy quarter-master; his peculiar avocations had demanded a more than usual exertion on his part, and in the posture he had laid down at night, he rested till morning, without stirring a limb.
If she were living, I would not hint of this to you, but I go to South Africa with the very first Canadian contingent. You are the best bugler in Canada. What do you want to do?" For an instant Billy was speechless. His nerves shook with a boy's first fear of battle. His old gun-shyness had him in its grip.
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