Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 126
, bullets, slugs, and tools of va-rious kinds were buried or concealed in theforks of trees, high up and out of sight. Whereany articles were buried in the ground, a firewas afterwards built on the surface so that noVol. XVIII.—44. trace of the disturbed ground should be leftto show the expected… … THE RETREAT TO BATTLES J tan, must be abandoned to the foe—if he cameto take it. But everything that could be hiddenin trees or buried in the earth was so disposedof as rapidly as possible. Perhaps the boys, after the first flush of ap-prehension had passed, rather enjoyed the nov-elty and the…
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