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North and northe traveled on a fair road, which ran through pleasant far lands, stretches of woods, meadows, and stubble-fields At firstain some slow Dutch yokel, with his sunburned face turned from his labor to watch us pass But the few farmhouses became fewer, and these last were deserted Finally no led clearings, and these into second growth, and these at last into the prih which our road, now but a luy and deep with the is of the trees

Without command of mine, four lithe riflemen had trotted off ahead I now ordered four uard to string out in double file on either side of the anion The careless conversation in the ranks, the sudden laugh, the clu all ceased Tobacco-pipes were emptied and pouched, flints and pans scrutinized, straps and bandoleers tightened, on-wheels, and harness, and I saw the was in place

Thankful that I had a coodless and silly trappers, bawling contean to read the signs of the forest, relapsing easily into that cautious custo rusted

And never had man so perfect a coht as I had in Elsin Grey Her sweet, reasonablemy ears with all the concentration of lance or word Yet, soon as I spoke in low tones, her soft replies were ready, and whena moment on her, her eyes ive

At noon we halted to rest the horses and eat, the pickets going out of their own accord And I did not think it fit to give orders where none were required in this coinment was suited to the conditions Braddock and Bunker Hill were lessons I had learned to regard as vastly ood Baron's drill-book