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"It's a perfect surprise to them! they didn't think we could do it!" cried Gray, elated. "Lively, boys! lively." The firing, regular at first, running along the line from right to left, soon became a continual rattling, each man loading at will, and firing whenever an enemy's head showed itself. "There! I popped you over, you sneaking rebel!" cried Seth Tucket, watching the effect of his shot.
"Shouldn't wonder if somebody got a wet foot," said Tucket, in the midst of the plunging and plashing himself in up to his hips. "'A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! Here, Manly, take a grip of my coat tail. I'm longer legged than you." "I'm all right," said Frank. "I've no gun to carry, and I can get along." And he floundered on as fast as the deep, clinging ooze would permit.
There lay a deserted flag, bearing the Latin inscription "Aut vincere aut mori," Victory or death, flung down in the precipitate flight. "They couldn't conquer, and they didn't want to die; so they split the difference, and run," observed Seth Tucket. There too lay the dead and dying, whom the boastful enemy had forsaken where they fell.
'Kings may be great, but Seth is glorious, o'er all the ills of life victorious! So put it away, and keep it, Frank." But when the drummer boy told him how he had come by the money, and that it was his wish to settle his accounts before the battle, Tucket screwed up his face with a resigned expression, and received back the loan. A great weight was now lifted from Frank's mind.
And therewith he raised a little tucket to his mouth and wound a rousing call. Then followed a moment of confusion; for while Dick, fearing for the ladies, still hesitated to give the word to shoot, Hatch's little band sprang to their weapons and formed back to back as for a fierce resistance.
The magister held his hands above his head in shocked negation of this injustice but there came from the street the thin wail of a trumpet; another joined it, and a third; the three sounds executed a triple convolution and died away one by one. Holding his thin hand out for silence and better hearing, he muttered: 'Norfolk's tucket! Then it is true that Norfolk comes to Paris.
And there again is Siward, that with his brother maintained the sallyport 'gainst Ivo's van what time they drave us from the outer bailey. And yonder Cedric but so could I name them each and every ha! there sounds the welcome tucket! Come, let us break our fast, and there be many knights and esquires and gentles of degree do wait to pay thee homage."
"Take the fellow next to him there, Harris! behind that stump!" "Let him put up his head a little higher!" said Harris, taking aim. He fired. The rebel dropped, not behind the stump, but beside it. "You've saved him!" shouted Tucket. "That'll pay for Ellis and Jack Winch!" The fire of the enemy in the woods was soon concentrated on Captain Edney's company, which happened to be most exposed.
O Lord!" moaned Jack, in despair, feeling more like praying than ever before in his life. Tucket had a line of poetry to suit his case: "'And then some prayed the first time in some years;" he said, quoting Byron. And he proceeded with a description of a shipwreck, which was not very edifying to the unhappy Winch: "'Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell," etc.
I am happier now that I've lost every thing; it's true, Tucket." "Well, I swan to man! I thought you was mourning over your luck, and I was bringing ye sunthin' to kind o' cheer ye up. Glad to hear you've no need. Fine day, but rather windy. Wonder what's the time!" So saying, Seth drew out the watch, and regarded it with provoking coolness. "I'm plagued ef the darned thing hain't run down!
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