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They heard hoofbeats on the road ahead of them, and the sound was coming in their direction. "A strong force," said Captain Sherburne. "Probably larger than ours, if the hoofbeats mean anything," said Harry. "And Yankees, of course. Here they are!" A strong detachment of cavalry suddenly rounded a curve in the road and swept into full view.
His senior officers also fell, as they tried to rally their men, who were giving way at all points. Sherburne wheeled his troop away again and charged at the Northern cavalry, which was still in order. Harry had seen Jackson himself give the command to the captain.
The hospital ships were soon crowded, and even the Jersey herself shortly became about as much of a hospital ship as the others." Sherburne was again sent to a hospital ship, where he was rejoiced to find his uncle convalescing. A man who lay next him had been a nurse, but had had his feet and legs frozen, the toes and bottom of his feet fell off. Two brothers shared a bunk near him.
They knew every trick of war, and columns of infantry swept forward to meet the attack, preceded by the skirmishers, who took heavy toll of the foe. "If they'd been able to make it a surprise they might have rushed us," said Harry. "Nobody catches Sherburne sleeping," said Dalton. "That's true, and because they can't they won't be able to overcome him here. Now there go our rifles!
Huldy was a drefful chipper sort o' gal; and work sort o' rolled off from her like water off a duck's back. There warn't no gal in Sherburne that could put sich a sight o' work through as Huldy; and yet, Sunday mornin', she always come out in the singers' seat like one o' these 'ere June roses, lookin' so fresh and smilin', and her voice was jest as clear and sweet as a meadow lark's Lordy massy!
The year arter the doctor was app'inted to preach the 'lection sermon in Boston, he made such a figger that the Brattle-street Church sent a committee right down to see if they couldn't get him to Boston; and then the Sherburne folks, they up and raised his salary; ye see, there ain't nothin' wakes folks up like somebody else's wantin' what you've got.
"I feel the immense, the far off," said Pierre slowly. The other did not understand as yet. "You've learned big words," he said disdainfully. "No; big things," rejoined Pierre sharply "a few." "Let me hear you preach them," half snarled Sherburne. "You will not like to hear them no." "I'm not likely to think about them one way or another," was the contemptuous reply. Pierre's eyes half closed.
I heard on 't to the store and up to the tavern; and Jake Marshall he says to me one day, 'What's this 'ere about the cap'n's house? And the Widder Loker she says to me, 'There's ben a ghost seen in the cap'n's house; and I heard on 't clear over to Needham and Sherburne. "Some o' the women they drew themselves up putty stiff and proper. Your Aunt Lois was one on 'em.
"Our officers," says Sherburne, "were paroled and allowed to retain their waiters. We were for several days entirely destitute of provisions except muscles, which we gathered from the muscle beds. I was at this time waiter to Captain Pierce Powers, master's mate of the Ranger. He treated me with the kindness of a father."
Such places as Oxford, Binghamton, Norwich, Sherburne, Hamilton, and twenty more, that now dot the region of which we have been writing, did not then exist, even in name; for, in that day, the appellation and maps came after the place; whereas, now, the former precede the last. The ten years that elapsed between 1785 and 1795, did wonders for all this mountain district.
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