Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 100
gger. Bang! For a moment he was deafened and bewil-dered by the report and the blinding flash oflight. Then the cloud of pungent gunpowder-smoke drifted away, and his senses came backto him. The head and body were gone fromagainst the sky. Beniah sprang to his feet and flew back to-ward the mud… … him ? No, they were not. He heard alarmedvoices from the fort, and the shouting of thepickets. A strange impulse seized him that hecould not resist: he felt that he must go backand see what he had shot. He turned andcrept slowly back, step by step, pausing nowand then, and listening intently. By…
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