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Updated: May 23, 2025
This became a certainty when there came report after report of these wood-skulkers, and when the conscript-guard, with the brightest of uniforms, rode by with as much show and noise as if on a fox-hunt. Then it became known that deserters were, indeed, infesting the piny district of Holetown, and in considerable numbers.
The boys had come up out of their retreat, and taken places on each side of the General. "You all take to grass like young partridges," said the hunter. The boys were flattered, for they considered any notice from him a compliment. "What made you fool us, and send us to catch that conscript-guard?" Frank asked. "Well, you ketched him, didn't you?
Others stayed at home after leave had ended, feeling secure in their stretches of pine and swamp, not only from the feeble efforts of the conscript-guard, but from any parties who might be sent in search of them. In this way it happened, as time went by, that Holetown became known to harbor a number of deserters.
They were the conscript-guard. Johnson's look was despairing. "Why, Billy, what in thunder ? Thought you were sick in bed!" Another minute and the soldiers took in the situation by instinct and Johnson's rage was drowned in the universal explosion of laughter. The boys had captured a member of the conscript-guard.
The conscript-guard, on the other hand, were grown men, and were thought to be shirking the very dangers and hardships into which they were trying to force others.
The conscript-guard had been unusually active lately, and it was said that several deserters had been caught. The boys turned in at their old road, and made their way into Holetown. Their guns were loaded with large slugs, and they felt the ardor of battle thrill them as they marched along down the narrow roadway. They were trudging on when they were hailed by name from behind.
When the conscript-guard came along, there would be a rush of tow-headed children through the woods, or some of the women about the cabins would blow a horn lustily; after which not a man could be found in all the district. The horn told just how many men were in the guard, and which path they were following; every member of the troop being honored with a short, quick "toot."
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