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"Reno is going in, boys; it will be our turn next"

"Close up! Quiet there, lads, quiet," officer after officer passed the

word of coe dread--that firing

sounded so far up the stream froht be that those overhanging bluffs wouldly pressing forward at the word of their beloved

leader All about the

thees, peering

at the hordes,

hideous in war-paint, crowded into near-by coulées and behind

protecting hills

It burst upon thees blazed into

their startled faces, the dark ravines hurled at the

horsee forulch and rock shadow Horses

fell, or ran about neighing;up their hands and died in that

first awful minute of consternation, and the little column seemed to

shrivel away as if consumed by the flame which struck it, front and