Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 164
dare walk thelength of hisbeat. Let s gothere to-nightand fetch it in,said the boy. No—not! The soldierrarely spoke inso positive amanner to hisyounger com-panion. Theyhad grown tobe quite goodfriends. SoSergeant Gorelooked at thetrim figure byhis side, andadmired — asa cavalrymanwould—Tadsposture… … he felt her claws strike at(see p Gore was a well-born, well-trained youngfellow who had enlisted in the ranks of theregular army at a time when penniless and dis-couraged, as has many another son of a good family. Heseemed pecu-liarlyattractiveto this boy.Tad admiredGore becausehe was clever-er…
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