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Updated: June 16, 2025
The race was checked, but not yet effectually, though the Skipper had now more time to pick off the leaders as they scrambled over their brethren only to fall victims to the sharp-shooter and help to build up a barrier to impede the others. It was now a terrible sight of animals in desperation.
After that she stole off home, and got a sharp-shooter to stay in the cottage with her mother. So when the clock struck twelve, or just about it, home came the Man o' the Hill, and the first thing he said to the straw-girl was, 'Give me something to eat. But she answered him never a word. 'Give me something to eat, I say! called out the Man o' the Hill, 'for I am almost starved.
Wish I could shoot like that! We brought along the crack sharp-shooter of the camp." One of the Marines looked up and grinned. "This chap," the official continued, "could hit the hind leg of a fly that's scratching himself on a post fifty yards away!" Then, to Stuart's enormous surprise, he turned to the prisoners with an air of authority.
After an excited and anxious search he had found the match-box in the wrong pocket. The eyes of the sharp-shooter frowned along the barrel of his rifle. With his chin pressed against the stock he whispered swiftly from the corner of his lips, "He is an officer! I am aiming where the strap crosses his heart. You aim at his belt. We fire together."
What is your honour's pleasure next?" "I wish my mind were at ease on the subject of the Tuscarora. With Nick's assistance as a runner and spy, and even as a sharp-shooter, we should be vastly stronger. See to the gate yourself, serjeant, then follow me to Mr. Woods' room." This was done, the captain waiting for his companion on the threshold of the outer door.
"We've got 'em this trip!" "We have unless they carry a ten-pounder in which case we'll take a bath. Freeze close, buddie!" Nearer and nearer we drew, but no bally hell came from her. She showed absolutely no sign of anyone, not even a pile of canvas or a box that might hide a sharp-shooter.
After an excited and anxious search he had found the match-box in the wrong pocket. The eyes of the sharp-shooter frowned along the barrel of his rifle. With his chin pressed against the stock he whispered swiftly from the corner of his lips, "He is an officer! I am aiming where the strap crosses his heart. You aim at his belt. We fire together."
He had served, when only seventeen, in the Franco-Prussian War as a hussar, and was a noted sharp-shooter being "the little baron" who is the hero of Archibald Forbes's true story of "The Pig-dog." He and I had for years talked over the possibilities of just such a regiment as the one I was commanding, and he was greatly interested in it.
In war, each army corps consists of 2 divisions, and is in round figures 42,000 strong; each infantry division contains 2 brigades, at a strength of 20,000. Each sharp-shooter brigade is about 9,000 strong, the cavalry divisions about 4,500 strong.
The sharp-shooter had stopped firing, and nothing disturbed the leafy silence but an intermittent drip of rain. We were at the end of the burrow, and the Captain signed to me that I might take a cautious peep round its corner. I looked out and saw a strip of intensely green meadow just under me, and a wooded cliff rising abruptly on its other side. That was all.
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