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Updated: May 1, 2025
Strategy had indicated retreat; and the black-green, tipped at collar and cuff with scarlet, of England's rifle-regiment was covering the retiring line, when the blue-coated columns of the French General's division had pressed on and delivered the wild volleys and scattered shots of the skirmishers which drew forth the sharp, vicious, snapping reply of the retreating rear-guard.
For a note or two of a bugle rang out sweet and clear in the beautiful valley, suggesting to one of the men a similar scene in an English dell; but he sighed to himself as it struck him that this was a different hunt, and that they, the men of the th, the one rifle-regiment of the British Army, were the hunted, and that those who followed were the French.
"How long have you been a private in the th?" "A year, sir." "Where were you before you enlisted?" "At Blankton House School." "Oh, I thought they called that College." "Yes, sir, they do," said Pen, smiling; "but it is only a preparation place." "Yes, for the sons of gentlemen making ready for the army?" "Yes, sir." "And how come you to be a private in his Majesty's Rifle-Regiment?"
My relative refused to listen to me, and I suppose I did wrong, for I went straight to where they were recruiting for the Rifle-Regiment, and the sergeant took me at once." "H'm!" said the officer, looking searchingly in the lad's eyes. "How came you to join so quiet-looking a regiment?" Pen smiled rather bitterly.
"Yes," replied Pen, with a smile, "but it is only a French piece. We belong to a rifle-regiment by rights." "Yes; I have heard of it," said the smuggler. "Well, I will ask him," said Pen, "for he doesn't understand a word we are saying.
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