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A group of men and women who had watched his arrival, gathered about asking questions. Nathan Spear spoke first. He had been too ill to join the Americans, but had furnished them horses and arms. "How goes it with our 'army, Sam?" he asked. "None too well," said Brannan. "Those greasers can fight and they've a good leader. Everyone of them would die for Sanchez. And everyone's a sharpshooter.
Then he looked down attentively into the depth, where only a footpath meandered close along the bank of the foaming Eisach. A few soldiers were now seen entering the defile yonder, where the road projected between two jutting rocks forming the background of the gorge. The form of a Tyrolese sharpshooter appeared at the same moment on the top of the precipitous rock.
And he hit the bull's eye ten times straight running. 'Hey! gasped the sergeant, 'you long, lanky galoot! You said you couldn't shoot. Abe sort of laughed. 'Reckon I was thinkin' about what Dad called shootin'.... Well, Abe and his brothers got to France to the front. Abe was a sharpshooter. He was killed at Argonne. Both his brothers were wounded.
Let him even show his noble head and breast at a slit in its green window-shades, and a ray flashes from it to the eye of a cat; let him, as spring comes on, burst out in desperation and mount to the tree-tops which he loves, and his gleaming red coat betrays him to the poised hawk as to a distant sharpshooter; in the barn near by an owl is waiting to do his night marketing at various tender-meat stalls; and, above all, the eye and heart of man are his diurnal and nocturnal foe.
"There's one feller somewhere over there doin' all that devilment," he said to Shorty, who was pushing his head eagerly out of the front of the wagon to find out what was going on. "He's a sharpshooter from way back. You kin see he's droppin' them mules jest about as fast as he kin load his gun. Them other fellers over there are jest putterin' away, makin' a noise.
Jessica still leaned from the casement watching and thinking more rapidly than she had ever done before; but when convinced that the apparition was really gone, she slowly retreated below stairs, passing her mother and Ninian on the way, yet not pausing till she had gained the side of the sharpshooter. Him she seized, exultantly exclaiming: "Well, Ephraim, I've seen your spectre!" "You have!"
Still their gunners kept falling one by one falling ominously at the crack of a single gun in the woods. A Confederate sharpshooter had climbed a tree and was picking them off. A tall Westerner spoke to the Colonel: "Let me go huntin' for him!" The Commander nodded and John went with him why? He asked himself the question before he had taken ten steps through the shadowy underbrush.
What pleased the monarch even more, and perhaps not less his sons, was that she shot with an arquebuse like a sharpshooter, and could ride to hounds like a natural-born Amazon. She was more than a rival, as it afterwards proved, of that arch-huntress, Diane de Poitiers.
He stood behind a large tree, and very energetically shot his arrows, and by voice and gesture roused and animated his comrades. Watching an opportunity when his arm was exposed, a sharpshooter succeeded in striking it with a bullet. The shattered arm dropped helpless.
The determination of the white men and their anxiety for their wives and children served to steady the nerve of every man and make of him a sharpshooter. The consternation of Girty's army cannot be described.
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