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It is said that when Admiral Cockburn, who accompanied the army, and attended General Ross with the fidelity of an aide-de-camp, was in the wood where the latter fell, he observed an American rifleman taking deliberate aim at him from behind a tree.
Before the boy could stop him, the little rifleman was through the door and away down the drain. "Come back!" ordered Kit in a fierce whisper. The man, stooping in the drain, turned and grinned. "In my Service, sir, Borderers lead." "In my Service, officers do.... Come back!"
This baffling of the rifleman by the artillery supporting the cavalry and bayonet charge will produce momentous changes, not only in the future of war, but also in that of international relations.
'Don't wonder you cover it up, said the first rifleman. Corporal Sam pulled off his poncho. 'I'd offer to fight the both of you, he said, 'but 'tis time wasted with a couple of white-livers that don't dare fetch a poor child across a roadway. Let me go by; you'll keep, anyway. 'Now look here, sonny The first rifleman blocked his road.
Instead of turning and defending himself, the fellow struggled to release himself from the boy's hold, and to make his way toward a section of the wall on the south. The statement that a rifleman had been stationed somewhere there now came back to the boy's mind, and he knew that there must be a passage behind that wall.
"Now, dear, point out your luggage to my servant and he'll look after it and get it up to the hotel. Oh, how do you do, Captain Charlesworth?" The Rifleman, determined to lose no time in making Noreen's acquaintance, had come up to them. "I had quite a shock, Mrs. Smith, when I saw you on the platform, for I was afraid that you were leaving us and had come to take the down train."
The proper charge of powder for any rifle is about one-seventh the weight of the ball, and the only means which should ever be adopted for increasing the range is the elevating sight. In conclusion, I would impress upon the young rifleman the importance of always keeping his weapon in perfect order.
The thought of this young man spending himself for a legless sailor, and a wounded rifleman, his enemies, who half-an-hour before had stood between him and his life's success, touched him to the quick. "What a man!" he cried. He turned back into the kitchen. Knapp was continuing his tale. "'Pull em off, says one, black and bitter. 'Don't spoil your own sport.
The young rifleman did not stop to think, but occupied the brief moments in running to his comrade's help; and, just as a volley came crashing from the open wood beyond the path, he dropped down over the side, striving hard to keep his feet and to check his downward progress to where he felt that the boy must have fallen.
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