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It has been sold, or much of it, for large prices. For in all these years its value has very greatly increased ten and twentyfold." He paused for a moment, then with an unaccustomed sternness he resumed, "Clark's Field is no longer the pasture land of an outlying farm. In the course of all these years the city has grown up to it and around it.
Governor Hutchinson, looking out upon them from the window of the council chamber, saw that they were the foremost men of Boston. The consignees were in Richard Clark's store, and the door was locked. "From whom are you a committee," asked Clark, opening a window. "From the whole people." "I shall have nothing to do with you."
The boy gave a shrill whistle on his fingers and touched the spurs to his horse's flank. "Father!" he called. Another moment and the panting pony stood still near the wagon, his sides heaving. Donald dismounted and ran to meet his father. "Well, well!" was Mr. Clark's first exclamation. "How is this? I sent a pale-faced American boy to the range and I get an Indian in exchange!"
Thus it happened that when, cut off from grazing, it was necessary for the Shanty Town teams to be returned at once to Clark's, Old Michael was on hand and in condition to take them, and, by so doing, wipe out his drinking-account.
No gun, no beat to quarters or bugle-call from Fort Sackville. What could it mean? Clark's next move was an enigma, for he set the men to cutting and trimming tall sapling poles. The boisterous day was reddening to its close as the Colonel lined his little army in front of the wood, and we covered the space of four thousand. For the men were twenty feet apart and every tenth carried a standard.
While moving to the support of General Polk, an order reached me from General Beauregard to report to him with my command at his headquarters." Ruggles' division and Cheatham's division, with one regiment of Clark's, were put on the Confederate left of Shiloh Church; Wood's brigade and Trabue's brigade to the right.
Clark's dates, given from memory, are often a day or two out. This spot he chose, both because from it he could threaten and hold in check the different Indian tribes, and because he deemed it wise to have some fort to protect in the future the craft that might engage in the river trade, when they stopped to prepare for the passage of the rapids.
The engineers gone toward Clark's, Dallas again took up her watch. Twice before night she was rewarded. The mail-sergeant passed, bringing a batch of letters to a grateful post; and, late in the afternoon, an Indian runner came into sight from up the Missouri. Scorning to use the ferry, he dropped into the river, where the coulée emptied, and swam across.
The same old vigilance, learned in earlier days on the frontier, was in constant demand, and there was many a rough and rapid ride to drive the hostiles from the trail. Whatever Colonel Clark's men may have had to complain of, there was no lack of excitement, no dull days, in that summer.
The repulsive savage stood up before them stolid, resolute, defiant, proudly flaunting the badge which testified to his horrible efficiency as an emissary of Hamilton's. It had been left in his belt by Clark's order, as the best justification of his doom. "L' me hack 'is damned head," Oncle Jazon pleaded. "I jes' hankers to chop a hole inter it.
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