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She fed the cattle, and kept all things snug about the doors; not forgetting to load her master's two guns, "in case," as she said, "the ribels should attack us in our retrate." The months of November and December of 1838 had beer unnaturally mild for this iron climate; but the opening of the ensuing January brought a short but severe spell of frost and snow.
He sat on his bench in the Kitchen, a sunny idol in a shrine, indifferent to the effect his background gave him. His mouth puckered. He put up his leather stained hand coyly, and motioned her unmoving figure back. "Ah, go 'way! Wasn't it to escape you and the likes of you that I made me retrate to the shore? Nayther white, full haythen, half, nor quarther nade apply.
Another favorite order of his when he wished to give the order, "fours right" and then form the squad on right into line, was this: "On ladin set of fours, form line of battle, faced to the rare, march!" Turning to the Major, who was watching him drill one day, after executing this manoeuvre he said, "Major this is a bully movement on a retrate."
She fed the cattle, and kept all things snug about the doors; not forgetting to load her master's two guns, "in case," as she said, "the ribels should attack us in our retrate." The months of November and December of 1838 had been unnaturally mild for this iron climate; but the opening of the ensuing January brought a short but severe spell of frost and snow.
"By Jasus, and ye may say that with your own pritty mouth," remarked another veteran, who answered to the name of Lieutenant Murphy; "for it isn't now, while we are surrounded and bediviled by the savages, that any man of the rigimint should be after talking of bating a retrate."
"By Jasus, and ye may say that with your own pritty mouth," remarked another veteran, who answered to the name of Lieutenant Murphy; "for it isn't now, while we are surrounded and bediviled by the savages, that any man of the rigimint should be after talking of bating a retrate."
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