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As the train approached the four cannon were unloaded from the trucks, and swept the further shore with shell and shrapnel. After a scattered fire the Southern force withdrew some distance, where it halted, apparently undecided. The clouds rolled up again, the feeble moon disappeared, and the river sank into the dark. "May I make a suggestion, Colonel Newcomb?" said Major Hertford. "Certainly."
It did not need Colonel Newcomb to tell him that these were the campfires of the army that they had met on the field of Bull Run, and that the Southern troops were now cooking their suppers. No doubt his cousin Harry was there and perhaps others whom he knew. The fires seemed to Dick a defiance to the Union.
Once more in 1890, and this time with better success, the eighteenth-century transits were investigated by Professor Newcomb. Conclusions on the subject, however, were still regarded as purely provisional. A transit of Venus was fast approaching, and to its arbitrament, as to that of a court of final appeal, the pending question was to be referred.
On February 24, 1792, Schröter perceived what he took to be distinct traces of a lunar twilight, and continued to observe them during nine consecutive years. They indicated, he thought, the presence of a shallow atmosphere, about 29 times more tenuous than our own. Newcomb places the maximum at 1/400.
Colonel Newcomb with great presence of mind drew the two parallel lines of his men close together, and ordered them to lie down on either side of the railroad track and face outward with cocked rifles. Dick, the Vermonter, and Sergeant Whitley lay close together, and the three faced the north. "See the torches!" said Whitley.
Colonel Newcomb and Major Hertford stood amid their men, encouraging them to receive the shock. But Dick had time for only a glance at these old comrades of his. The Southern wave, crested with fire and steel, was rolling swiftly upon them, and as the Southern troops rushed on they began to fire as fast as they could pull the trigger, fire and pull again.
"I was as nigh to 'em as I be to you. Mrs. Colton is sort of fleshy, but as handsome a woman as you'd want to see. I spoke to her, too. 'It's a nice day, I says, 'ain't it?" "What did she say?" asked Newcomb. "She didn't say nothin'. Engine was makin' such a noise she didn't hear, I presume likely." "Humph!" sniffed Baker, evidently envious; "I guess she heard you, all right.
In his peculiar path Jonson was unequalled, but Shakespeare includes that and so much more! He seems to be the only one to whom poets are content to be inferior. Remember me to Charles Dana and my other compeers at Brook Farm, especially Charles Newcomb. Yours sincerely, My dear Friend, If I should come to Brook Farm on Thursday evening will it be convenient, and shall you be at home?
Aunt Emma Newcomb gets in a few more kisses all around her family. She's going down to the next station. The engine gives a few loud puffs, spins its wheels a few times, and the cars begin moving past. Hurrah! Something doing to-day. That grocery salesman who gets here once a week is coming across the square two jumps to a rod. Go it, old man! Go it, train!
"Thoph Newcomb and Cap'n Jed Dean and the rest of us was havin' a talk on politics last night up there and 'twas mighty interestin'. Old Dean had Thoph pretty well out of the race when I hauled alongside, but when I got into the argument 'twas different. 'What's goin' to become of the laborin' men of this country if you have free trade? I says. Dean had to give in that he didn't know.
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