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The First Brigade rose from beneath the pines. It rose, it advanced between the moving guns, it shouted. The stone wall became an avalanche, and started down the slope. It began crescent-wise, for the pine wood where it had lain curved around Ricketts and Griffin like a giant's half-closed hand. From the finger nearest the doomed batteries sprang the 33d Virginia.
As the line pressed forward, Ricketts observed this widening interval and endeavored to fill it with the small brigade of Colonel Keifer, but at this juncture both Gordon and Rodes struck the weak spot where the right of the Sixth Corps and the left of the Nineteenth should have been in conjunction, and succeeded in checking my advance by driving back a part of Ricketts's division, and the most of Grover's.
He's not only disgraced us, but he's swindled his best friend. It's a blackguard shame!" added he, fiercely. "At any rate, Loman is out of it, from what I hear; he got regularly stuck in the exam." "I tell you," said Ricketts, "I'd sooner have had Loman take the scholarship and our two men nowhere at all, than this."
There was such a museum as would now be thought lightly of in a western city of fifteen or twenty years' growth a circus kept by a man of the name of Ricketts the theatre in John street, a very modest Thespian edifice and a lion, I mean literally the beast, that was kept in a cage quite out of town, that his roaring might not disturb people, somewhere near the spot where the triangle that is called Franklin Square now is.
At the foot of the hill ran the road, and beyond the road were the marshy banks of a little stream, and on the other side of the stream rose the Mathews Hill. Ranged upon this height Ricketts and Griffin and Arnold and many another Federal battery were sending shrieking shells against the Henry Hill.
Crook led the way across the Potomac at Harper's Ferry on the evening of the 5th of August, Emory followed the next morning, and Ricketts with the Sixth Corps brought up the rear. Averell with the cavalry, as will be remembered, was still far away, engaged in the long chase after McCausland. Hunter took up his position covering Halltown and proceeded to strengthen it by entrenchments.
"Old Ricketts" sprang suddenly to his feet, and, gripping me by the arm, said piteously, "Oh, go to her! for Heaven's sake, go to her!" I next remember standing in her path and seeing her holding out her hands full of red lilies, crying out, "Are they not lovely? Lewis is so fond of them!"
There's the Mathews Hill where we first met Sykes and Ricketts seen them often since. The Henry Hill there's the house Mrs. Henry was killed. Hampton and Cary came along there and Beauregard with his sword out and Old Joe swinging the colours high, restoring the battle! and Kirby Smith, just in time just in time, and the yell his column gave! Next day we thought the war was over." "I didn't."
"Well bowled, sir!" shouted Master Paul, as a very swift ball from Ricketts took Bullinger's middle stump clean out of the ground "rattling well bowled! I say," he added, turning round; "if Ricketts bowls like that to-day week, the others will be nowhere." "Oh," said Stephen, to whom this remark seemed to be addressed. Master Paul looked sharply round. "Hullo, young 'un, is that you?
"What, ain't you going out agin?" demanded his astonished wife. Mr. Billing shook his head. "Somebody else might want to give me one," he said, resignedly, "and I've 'ad about all I want to-night." His face was still painful next morning, but as he sat at breakfast in the small kitchen he was able to refer to Mr. Ricketts in terms which were an eloquent testimony to Mr. Purnip's teaching. Mrs.
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