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They paced the deck of the steamboat nervously, and looked carefully into the woods along the river-bank to see if there were any Rebel scouts lurking behind the trees. Six miles below Cairo is a place called Old Fort Jefferson, where many years ago the white settlers built a fort, and where they had a battle with the Indians.
General Burnside continued the bombardment for some hours, the Mississippians still holding the river-bank and preventing the laying of the pontoons, which was again begun and again discontinued.
Or such rich, nutty doughnuts? doughnuts that had spurned the hot fat which is the ruin of so many, and risen from its waves like golden-brown Venuses. "By the great seleckmen!" ejaculated Jed Towle, as he swallowed his fourth, "I'd like to hev a wife, two daughters, and four sisters like them Wileys, and jest set still on the river-bank an' hev 'em cook victuals for me.
Sometimes when his walk leads him by the river-bank where I stand a-fishing he will seat himself for a while and watch; and then I find a comfort in his presence, as though we conversed together without help of speech.
What makes it worse, both have lost money that belonged to other men in the command, and they are in bad odor accordingly. The long day's march has tempered the joviality of the entire column. It is near sundown, and still they keep plodding onward, making for a grassy level on the river-bank a good mile farther.
In the Summer of 1848, a dam was constructed across the Connecticut river by the Hadley Falls Company. It was finished on the morning of Nov. 16, 1848. A great crowd of ten thousand people collected on the river-bank to witness the filling of the pond and closing of the gates. At ten o'clock the gates were let down and the pond began to fill.
There was three and sixpence on hand, I believe, the last time he brought in his accounts, on a May day, when we had a meeting in a grove on the river-bank. Tom was a very honest treasurer, and never spent the Society's money for peanuts; and besides all, was a fine, generous boy, whom I much loved. But I must not talk about Tom now.
"I shall stay!" she said; "I know my work is here!" The German rifle-flames began to sparkle and flicker along the river-bank; a bullet rang out against the granite façade behind them. "Come!" he cried, sharply, but she slipped from him and ran towards the house.
The river-bank was clear, and on the water-side I saw a white man under a hat like a cart-wheel beckoning persistently with his whole arm. Examining the edge of the forest above and below, I was almost certain I could see movements human forms gliding here and there. I steamed past prudently, then stopped the engines and let her drift down. The man on the shore began to shout, urging us to land.
"Wilt thou that I stand by it?" said Grettir. "Be thou then very peaceable, kinsman," said Atli, "for here have we to deal with overbearing men." "Well, let them pay for their own insolence," said Grettir, "if they know not how to hold it back." Now are the horses led out, but all stood forth on the river-bank tied together. There was a deep hollow in the river down below the bank.
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