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"Let me see," August thrust Zeke aside. "A bullet-hole just missed the bone not serious. Tie it up tight. I'll take him home to-morrow.... Hare, who's been here?" "Snap rode in and left his respects." "Snap! Already? Yet I knew it I saw it. You had Providence with you, lad, for this wound is not bad. Snap surprised you, then?" "No. I knew it was coming."
On the present occasion there was not a hole, except the key-hole, by which he could hope to make his escape. Yes, by-the-bye, there was a hole in the window, which was made of parchment; but as that was merely the bullet-hole through which the animal that had given his skin for a window had been shot, and was not larger than a shilling, it did not afford much hope.
When Thomas Wilson left the field of Brandywine, after that disastrous defeat, and with a bullet-hole through his neck, narrowly missing the jugular, which had been received in aiding to rescue and bear off the wounded Lafayette, that battle-scene was so imprinted on his mind that he believed he could ever afterwards, to his dying day, recall the position of every squadron, and even the place of every rock and tree beside which he had fought; and yet when he saw him, more than half a century afterwards, hobbling along on his stout hickory cane to the place where he was to draw the scant pittance afforded him by a nation grudging in its gratitude he remembered Lafayette and that he was wounded in helping to bear him off nothing more.
Captain Jensen stood up in the sternsheets of his whaleboat and denied the existence of pants on his schooner. Also, he affirmed his intention of coming ashore. They of Goboto nursed him back to health from a bullet-hole through his shoulder, and in addition handsomely begged his pardon, for no pants had they found on his schooner.
Pushing the bushes aside, he peered among their shadows for some moments, and then uttered an exclamation of surprise and terror as he bounded backward. There was no mistake this time; he had seen the figure of a man with a ray of moonlight filtering through the leaves on a ghastly bullet-hole in his temple. He sat with his back against the fence, and had not moved after receiving the shock.
It was not a sight to interest any except the lazy or the curious, for in that day such things were common in North Platte. The horse had bullet creases on his neck; the rider wore a bloody shirt; the gaunt pedestrian had a bandaged arm. Neale lay ill of a deeper wound while the bullet-hole healed in his side.
And again after ten seconds Rolf's reply: Hoo-ooo. Both his friends were there; Fiske with a bullet-hole through his arm. It seemed their duty to go back at once to headquarters with the meagre information and their wounded comrade. But Fiske made light of his trouble it was a mere scratch and reminded them that their orders were to make sure of the enemy's movements.
And, his imagination being great, he reproduced for himself such a vivid sensation of a bullet-hole in his spine that he missed his footing near the bottom, and measured his length in the entry. Such are the humiliating experiences which sometimes befall the Talleyrands but rarely creep into their biographies. Austen, from the top of the stairway, saw this catastrophe, but did not smile.
The big double front door was wide open, and straight through the big, wide hallway and at the entrance of the dining-room, a sword a long cavalry sabre hung with a jaunty gray cap on the wall. Under them stood a boy with his hands clasped behind him and his chin upraised. The lad could see the bullet-hole through the top, and he knew that on the visor was a faded stain of his father's blood.
Occasionally he was called upon to referee some particularly close decision as to whether a certain bullet-hole could be said to have cut the edge of the black or not and his decisions were never questioned. The shoots were taken very seriously. He who won the first or second prize wore it proudly.
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