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Updated: May 29, 2025
In the mean time the days spent at San Antonio were full of active interest and hard work from morning reveille until the mellow trumpet-notes of taps. At the same time it was work mixed with a vast amount of harmless skylarking, in which both Ridge and Rollo took such active part as to win the liking of every member of their troop.
But if he has given us Memmius's own words, they must have rung in the ears of many an honest Roman like the trumpet-notes of that still more eloquent tribune whose body, ten years before, had been hurled into the Tiber. For he cast in the teeth of his audience their pusillanimity in suffering their champions to be murdered, and allowing so worthless a crew to lord it over them.
"The last loud trumpet-notes on high Peal through the echoing sky, And cleave the quivering ground" breaking, with dreadful summons, "the eternal calm wherewith the grave is bound." "Facilis descensus!"
"The remaining two had risen high into the air, and were heard uttering their loud trumpet-notes as they winged their flight through the dark heavens. "We soon bagged our game, both dead and wounded, and saw that they were a large `gander' and two young birds. "It was a successful beginning; and having replenished our torch, we continued to float downward in search of more.
Before the trumpet-notes had ceased to reverberate from the rocks, five hundred warriors had secured their horses, and stood beside them armed and ready to mount. A regiment of regular dragoons could not have responded to "Boots and saddles" with greater expedition! Peg-leg took possession of me.
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