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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Not in courage." "No," he said with a shrug of his broad shoulders that set ruffles and thrums a-dancing on his rifle-dress. We were silent for a while, watching the Indians at their polishing. Then he said in a low but pleasant voice: "How proud and happy must you be with your affianced. What a splendour of happiness lies before you both!
Headlong through this momentary opening rushed Garrett Putnam, his rifle-dress torn from his naked body, his heavy knife dripping in the huge fist that clutched it. After him leaped Ned McDonald, the coureur-de-bois, and Jack Youse, letting drive right and left with their hatchets.
Then he asked permission to go back and rejoin the scout which he commanded; which permission I gave, though it was not necessary; and away he went, running like a young deer that has lagged from the herd a tall, fine, wholesome young fellow, and as sturdy and active as any I ever saw in rifle-dress and ruffles.
And they knew the history of Lois, and how she had dressed her in rifle-dress, and how she had come to French Catharines.
And she linked her arm in mine and put one foot forward, looking up at me with all the light mischief of the very boy she seemed in her soft rifle-dress and leggins, and the bright hair crisply curling 'round her moleskin cap. "Have a care of the trees, then, little minx," I said. "Pooh! Can you not see in the dark?" "Can you?" "Surely.
Beyond them, at the Burris Farm, we passed our outlying pickets Irregular Riflemen from the Scoharie and Sacandaga, tall, lean, wiry men, whose leaf-brown rifle-dress so perfectly blended with the tree-trunks that we were aware of them only when they halted us. And, Lord!
I don't think the volunteers of this day are so smart-looking as they were of olden time, when they wore blue coats, white breeches, gaiters and pig-tails, and used pipe-clay in abundance. When we were reviewed on Moss-Lake Fields we made a gallant show. There are fine young fellows now, but somehow the dark rifle-dress looks sombre and dull.
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