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But amidst the furrows the can sat untouched by the plunging missiles. We were greeted with hearty banter. "Hyar's the champeens!" "Now they'll show us." "Ain't never see that pilgrim unlimber his gun yit, but I reckon he's a bad 'un." "Jenks, old hoss, cain't you l'an that durned can manners?" "I'll try to oblige you, boys," friend Jenks smiled.
Brigades marching at route step, bivouac fires, around which groups were eating their breakfast, orderly sergeants insisting in very naughty yet impressive language on the use of sand paper on muskets already bright, musicians rehearsing some new march, little boys bracing up drums half as high as themselves, important adjutants riding to and fro to hurry up the formation of their respective regiments, elegantly attired aides-de-camp galloping like mad and endeavoring to avoid mud puddles, batteries thundering along, as if eager to unlimber and fire at some enemy in short, it was fifty acres, more or less, of uniforms, horses, flags, and bayonets, in apparently inextricable confusion.
Some of them were so mutinous, at one time, that I had the battery to unlimber, threatening, if they dared to leave camp without orders, I would open fire on them.
"I know it's tough," retorted Hampton, with exasperating coolness, his revolver's muzzle held steady; "but, just the same, it's got to be done. I know you far too well to take chances on your gun. So unlimber." "Oh, I guess not," and Murphy spat contemptuously. "Do ye think I 'm afeard o' yer shootin'? Ye don't dare fer I 'm no good ter ye dead." "You are perfectly right.
"Oh, but I must have a chance to get in trim," said the college man. "One week from Saturday goes," announced Stover, "and we thank you again." Turning to Carara, he directed: "Rope your buckskin, and hike for the Centipede. Tell 'em to unlimber their coin. I'll draw a month's wages in advance for every son-of-a-gun on the Flying Heart, and we'll arrange details to-night." "Si," agreed Carara.
"Unlimber your guns at once," he said. "Here is your support." Then the valiant Bee himself came, covered with dust, his clothes torn by bullets, his horse in a white lather. He, too, turned to that stern brown figure, as unflinching as death itself, and he cried that the enemy in overwhelming numbers were beating them back. "Then," said Jackson, "we'll close up and give them the bayonet."
Do you think your men can stand it?" The reply was, "They can stand almost anything; they can stand that!" We stood expecting every moment to be ordered in, as every effort was made by our officers to find a piece of open ground on which we could unlimber.
Just now, one has come from the China frontier, some ten carriers wearing pointed straw hats several feet wide. They unlimber and drink a little water from a spring that spouts out of the side of a hill through a bamboo; they are quiet people their voices and the gurgling of the spring just reach us.
Her face was flaming, and her fat arms, flourishing like unlimber flails, were pointing every verbal threat she hurled over her shoulder at the spot where the man had stood. Yes, he had vanished again round the corner of the barn, and the poor woman's best efforts were quite lost upon the warm summer air. But her purpose was obvious, and Joan prepared herself for a whirlwind visitation.
While the guns halted briefly before driving in to unlimber, I walked forward to see what was in front. The moment I came into view a Minie-ball sung by my head and passed through the clothes of the cannoneer, Barton McCrum, who was a few steps from me, suggesting to both of us to lie low until called for as videttes.
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