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Updated: May 20, 2025
They had come there to protect their stock from the rapine of our vile pillagers, who had spread such terror amongst the farmers the day before. Perched up on the combe, with sentries always on the look-out, they could see the Duke's raiders long before they came within gunshot.
In the mean time, the two pillagers were lurking about; now remaining a short time with the camp of the Chippeways, now absenting themselves for a day or two. But while the Chippeways were preparing to leave the Falls, the pillagers were in the neighborhood of Fort Snelling. They had accompanied Hole in the Day's band, with the determination of killing an enemy.
Providence, which had not wholly forsaken me, continued still watching over my days, which I seemed inclined to cut short, by exposing myself to the dangers of a battle. Life was now a burden to me. In the hope of putting an end to my course, I asked leave of my master to go to the places where his cattle feed, and to join the inhabitants in defending themselves against the pillagers.
So active had been the work of the pillagers that followed the camp, that the dead and the dying had been stripped; and by the countenance alone could one discover a friend from a foe, I examined every face amidst a heap of dead bodies, and discovered my friend. Life was not yet extinct.
'Agitators and pillagers Stir up my villagers Worst of those fellows, so easily led! Some haven't food enough, Else it ain't good enough, Others object to sleep three in a bed. 'Deuce take their gratitude! "Life" that's the attitude "Dullish and hard, on the parish half-crown!" Dull? Give 'em circuses! Hard? Ain't there work'uses? What can they see to attract 'em to town?
The natural gas has been turned off and there is no danger of explosions." At three o'clock Friday morning it was unofficially announced that three pillagers had been shot to death in various parts of the city during the night.
In Normandy, the Central Committee, unable to do better, has to recruit its soldiers, and especially gunners, from the band of Carabots, former Jacobins, a lot of ruffians ready for anything, pillagers and runaways at the first canon-shot.
"Be satisfied you're not dead yet," was the Colonel's disposition of many of the applicants. All during the night and until dawn revolver and rifle shots had sounded. Most of the shooting was in the bottoms near the river, but about midnight there was a lively volley of shots, evidently an exchange of bullets, believed to have been between soldiers and pillagers.
The wide plain, then bustling with all the life and animation of a large army, was now nearly deserted, some dismounted guns, some broken-up, dismantled batteries, around which a few sentinels seemed to loiter rather than to keep guard; a strong detachment of infantry could be seen wending their way towards the fortress, and a confused mass of camp-followers, sutlers, and peasants following their steps for protection against the pillagers and the still ruder assaults of their own Guerillas.
The gloomy recesses of the forest gave shelter to inhabitants who were still more cruel and dangerous than beasts of prey, outlaws and sturdy robbers and mad were-wolves and bands of wandering pillagers. The pilgrim who would pass from the mouth of the Tiber to the mouth of the Rhine must travel with a little army of retainers, or else trust in God and keep his arrows loose in the quiver.
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