Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 184
some one or other alwayshad matches, and there were plenty of rails at hand,and these were dry enough when split open by ahatchet or ax. In a few moments the fencearound the corn-field was carried off, rail by rail,and everywhere was heard the sound of axes orhatchets, the premonitory symptoms of… … THE QUARTERMASTER S TK1VMPH. general camp equipage, so large and bulky, thatit is no exaggeration to say that Shortys pack wasquite as large as himself. All along it had been awonder to us how he had managed to pull throughso far with all that immense bundle on his back ;but, with strength far…
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