Abouttwo o'clock in the afternoon^that day the folks back with the wagon^train heard an occasional little patter^ing up at the fronts skirmishers, and^pretty soon this pattering increased^into a dovvii|iour; I hey were at it. It^was a showery sort ot light, sometimes^heavy and soinel lines Iight. but it lasteo^four hours, w ith the enemy slowly fall^ing back and the regiment slowly nil^vancing. About four o'clock the^colonel sends back for ainmuni^lion. When the colonel's crderlv came^'-^alloping down the road it so happened^that the acting brigade quartermaster^was over by the team Of course, he^Unevv what the orderly had come for.^ind he says to l.ieut Oiblev in a quiet,^casual sort of way^yon sec he knew^nil the men about the tram, anil ap^pareutly he was sort ot mlerested a lit^^tle in knowing which ot the Isiys was^going .ip with it^he says:
Who'sgoing up wit h it. Stephen^^^And Stephen says, in his quiet, -mil^ing way:
Iam,^ and he swings himself up^alongside the teamster and says, in his^easy, pleasant fashion:
Nowwe're off.^ and the teamster^starts his team, and the next minute^1 lie four horses are trotting up t he road
Whenthey reached the line they^swung off and drove along the rear ol^the regiment, halting now am) then so^that the men from the companies w hen^they came up for the ammunition could^get it easily; nd Lieut. t iibley was over^in the wagon now, pushing the boxes^back to the boys as they came up, and^good-humored as ever, and with a word^lor most everybody.
Vonunderstand^ It wasn't neces^^sary for l.ieut. Uibley to go up with^the ammunition, he might have sent^a man: but nobody in the regiment ever^thought any less ol him because he^wet his new commission or took the^chances -^f wetting it in their blood.^^N\ Y. Sun.
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WouldCost the Itritlsh Government^000,000 to Change Their Pitch.
