time that he was under fire, then that soldier is not a man to trust. After sitting rigid and silent, however, as if we had both stiff necks,Frankrike Landslagsdrakt, for a very few minutes, the feeling passed completely away, and from that day to this it has never returned to me. You see familiarity breeds contempt with bullets as with other things, and though it is no easy matter to come to like them,Moncler Bady, like the King of Sweden or my Lord Cutts, it is not so very hard to become indifferent to them.
The cornet’s death did not remain long unavenged. A little old man with a sickle,Moncler Cheverny, who had been standing near Sir Gervas, gave a sudden sharp cry, and springing up into the air with a loud ‘Glory to God!’ fell flat upon his face dead. A bullet had struck him just over the right eye. Almost at the same moment one of the peasants in the waggon was shot through the chest, and sat up coughing blood all over the wheel. I saw Master Joshua Pettigrue catch him in his long arms, and settle some bedding under his head, so that he lay breathing heavily and pattering forth prayers. The minister showed himself a man that day,UGG Peony Czyścibut, for amid the fierce carbine fire he walked boldly up and down,Nowy Styl, with a drawn rapier in his left hand — for he was a left-handed man — and his Bible in the other. ‘This is what you are dying for, dear brothers,’ he cried continually, holding the brown volume up in the air; ‘are ye not ready to die for this?’ And every time he asked the question a low eager murmur of assent rose from the ditches, the waggon, and the road.
‘They aim like yokels at a Wappenschaw,’ said Saxon, seating himself on the side of the waggon. ‘Like all young soldiers they fire too high. When I was an adjutant it was my custom to press down the barrels of the muskets until my eye told me that they were level. These rogues think that they have done their part if they do but let the gun off, though they are as like to hit the plovers above us as ourselves.’
‘Five of the faithful have fallen,’ said Hope-above Williams. ‘Shall we not sally forth and do battle with the children of Antichrist? Are we to lie here like so many popinjays at a fair for the troopers to practise upon?’
‘There is a stone barn over yonder on the hill-side,’ I remarked. ‘If we who have horses, and a few others, were to keep the dragoons in play, the people might be able to reach it,UGG Casual Czyścibut, and so be sheltered from the fire.’
‘At least let my brother and me have a shot or two back at them,Canada Goose Expedition Parka,’ cried one of the marksmen beside the wheel.
To all our entreaties and suggestions, however,Club America Drakt, our leader only replied by a shake of the head, and continued to swing his long legs over the side of the waggon with his eyes fixed intently upon the horsemen,Marco Reus Drakt, many of whom had dismounted and were leaning their carbines over the cruppers of their chargers.
‘This cannot go on, sir,UGG Slippers,’ said the pastor,Moncler Tulsa, in a low earnest voice; ‘two more men have just been hit.’
‘If fifty more men are hit we must wait until they charge,Moncler Everest,’ Saxon answered. ‘What would you do
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