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Some of their cavalry came within three miles of us to-day. Everybody scairt t' death." He began to set out a row of glasses. "What 'll ye hev?" he inquired. "Guess I 'll tip a little blue ruin int' me," said D'ri, with a shiver; "'s a col' night." Seth and I called for the same. "An' you?" said the landlord, turning to Thurst.
Thurst knew a trail that crossed the river near by and met the Caraway Pike a few miles beyond. Having eaten, I wrote a despatch to be taken back by Thurst as soon as we reached the pike. Past ten o'clock we turned into a rough road, where the three of us went one way and Thurst another. I rode slowly, for the horses were nearly fagged. I gave them an hour's rest when we put up for dinner.
Luk slidin' on a greased pole." "Comin' so luk the devil they did n't dast git 'n er way," said Thurst. "We wus all rippin' th' air 'ith them air joemightyful big sabres, tew," D'ri went on. "Hed a purty middlin' sharp edge on us. Stuck out luk a haystack right 'n' left." He began bringing wood as he sang the chorus of his favorite ballad: Li toorul I oorul I oorul I ay, etc.
The President had called for a hundred thousand volunteers to go into training for battle. He had also proclaimed there would be no more whipping in the ranks. Then my father told me that, since I could have no peace at home, I should be off to the war and done with it. We were working near the road that day Thurst Miles came galloping out of the woods, waving his cap at us.
More clearly than ever he saw before him the great field of life where was work and the joy of doing it. For a time he would be a teacher, but first there were other things to do. The Return of Thurst Tilly Trove sat in council with Mary and Theron Allen. He was now in debt to the doctor; he needed money, also, for clothing and boots and an enterprise all had been discussing.
It's easy to make money there." "If you've no objection I'd like to go with you," said Thurst Tilly. "I'm a good farmer." "Can you drive a team?" said the man. "Drove horses all my life," said Thurst; whereupon they made a bargain. Trove and Tilly went away to the brook for water while the travellers went to bed in their big, covered wagon.
We made our way to Sackett's Harbor, where I went into hospital for a month. Then came a galling time of idleness. In June we went with General Brown D'ri and I and Thurst Miles and Seth Alexander and half a dozen others down the river to the scene of our first fighting at Ogdensburg, camping well back in the woods. It was the evening of the 27th of June that the general sent for me.
For half a mile or more until the little house had sunk below the hill crest Trove was looking backward. Now and ever after he was to think and tarry also in the road of life and look behind him for the golden towers of memory. The drovers saw a change in Trove and flung at him with their stock of rusty, ancestral witticisms. But Thurst Tilly had a way of saying and doing quite his own,
Then Thurst, knocking loudly, gave out a wild yell or two, peered in at the nearest window, and came at last to his chair, sorrowful and much out of breath, his tale unfinished. There was in the man a saving element of good nature, and no one ever got angry with him.
When your letter is delivered, report at the Harbor as soon as possible." I was on the road with my party in half an hour. We were all good horsemen. D'ri knew the shortest way out of the woods in any part of the north country. Thurst had travelled the forest from Albany to Sackett's Harbor, and was the best hunter that ever trod a trail in my time.
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