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"Nor my drugs," said Doc Tomlinson. "And yet," said Curly, who was observant, "he kep' one box in the wagon. Couldn't see the brand, but she's there all right." "Curly," said Dan Anderson, "you are appointed a committee of one to follow the accused down to his house and find out what all this means." Curly deployed as a skirmisher, and finally arrived in front of Tom Osby's adobe.
How far is the nearest skirmisher?" "A good thousand yards, I should say," I replied. "Good, and no mistake, for the distance has saved me, Val, my lad. But what's that: over half a mile eh? Not bad shooting, and shows they must have good rifles, bless 'em! Now then, hand me that cartridge-belt, and I should be glad if you'd pass it over my head, for I'm not very ready to move."
Tom asked, passing his hand over his heated forehead. "Bedad! I'll tell you the plan," the old soldier answered, "and I think me friend Von Baumser will agray with me. I understand that this place is surrounded by a wall to which there is only one gate. Sure, we shall wait outside this wall, and one of us can go in as a skirmisher and find out how the land lies.
"About the time a feller gits a good start, somethin' breaks in him an' they nail him up in quarter oak." "Life is short," murmured the tavern-keeper, retiring behind a platitude as a skirmisher retires behind a stone. Ump bent the prongs of the fork against his plate. "An' yit," he soliloquised, "there is time enough for most of us to do things that we ought to be hung for."
"Ah, that's just where you're mistaken!" the woman who had caught on exclaimed. "Science does nothing but imagine things!" "Well, not quite," the light skirmisher mocked. She persisted unheeding: "First the suggestion from the mystical somewhere the same where, probably, that music and pictures and poetry come from; then the hypothesis; then the proof; then the established fact.
He received his death-wound, not as Cleombrotus at Leuctra, resisting manfully the assault of an enemy in the field; not as Cyrus or Epaminondas, sustaining the declining battle, or making sure the victory; all these died the death of kings and generals; but he, as it had been some common skirmisher or scout, cast away his life ingloriously, giving testimony to the wisdom of the ancient Spartan maxim, to avoid attacks on walled cities, in which the stoutest warrior may chance to fall by the hand, not only of a man utterly his inferior, but by that of a boy or woman, as Achilles, they say, was slain by Paris in the gates.
Else why should persons who are condemned to death be just as much resigned to it as the sick and even more exalted?" "Ah," the light skirmisher put in, "some of the scientific people dispose of that point very simply. They say it's self-hypnotism." "Well, but they can't prove that, either," she retorted. Then she went on: "Besides, the dying are not almost universally willing to die.
"The role of the skirmisher becomes more and more predominant. It is more necessary to watch over and direct him as he is used against deadlier weapons and as he is consequently more prone to try to escape from them at all costs in any direction."
Then Captain Prendergast came to the rescue. "You have been abroad for some months, have you not, Mr. Langford?" he said, with the desperation of one who flings himself into the breach. "I heard you had been to Russia. Surely you have something to tell us of the state and temper of the country after the war?" I was heartily grateful to the gallant Skirmisher for this diversion in my favour.
The convex side of the crescent was nearest to Morro Castle, and in this part of the curve were the battle-ships Texas, Indiana, and Iowa, with the small gunboat Suwanee thrown out as scout or skirmisher in the position that the head of the arrow would occupy if the line of the blockading vessels were a bent bow eight miles long.
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