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Updated: May 22, 2025
I'll take the other. I want to get back to that house and call O' Connor. Walter, you stay here with the rest." We separated and I felt that, although I was doing nothing, I had my hands full watching these three. Lockwood was restless and could not help beating around in the under-brush, in the hope of turning up something.
In such emergencies, with an Indian, thought takes the character of instinct. The fugitives stood at the foot of a sapling, whose top was completely concealed by masses of leaves, which belonged to the under-brush that clustered around its trunk.
The chaplain shouldered the man and carried him back to a dressing station, saving his life. "I didn't think a chaplain would do a thing like that," said the sergeant. "I would rather save you than save a general," replied the chaplain. When not searching for wounded hidden in the tangle of under-brush the chaplain was busy helping the surgeons at a first aid dressing station.
The elder bushes did not grow back in the shady ravines between the bluffs, but in the hot, sandy bottoms along the stream, where their roots were always in moisture and their tops in the sun. The blossoms were unusually luxuriant and beautiful that summer. I followed a cattle path through the thick under-brush until I came to a slope that fell away abruptly to the water's edge.
Reid's eldest son should endeavour, with a pocket compass, to run a line in the direction which we wanted to go, and that I should blaze+ out the line with the axe, while the rest chopped out the under-brush and levelled the path sufficiently wide to allow the passage of a litter.
They swerved and flew oceanward, but not one of them fell. I helped Euphemia on shore, and then, gun in hand, I made my way as well as I could to the other end of the island. There might be some deaf old fellows left who had not made up their minds to fly. The ground was very muddy, and drift-wood and under-brush obstructed my way.
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