Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 189: what you’re looking at

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182 THE BATTLE RESUMED. his waist were strapped a long cavalry sabre and pis- tols. oe) He presented a strange appearance, and on a less serious occasion the captain would not have restrained his mirth. | ‘“‘T’m glad to meet you again, Andy,’’ cried the captain, as he grasped the ycuth by the hand. ‘‘So you have recovered from your weakness and are on the fight once more ??’ ““T’m powerful weak yet, captain,’’ asserted the young Buckeye; “‘but I’ve seed Sheridan, and he’s convinced me that we can lick them yit. I don’t s’pose I’m more exhausted than the rest of ther boys. If they kin fight on empty stomachs, I ’low I kin. When I was to home I allus hunted the ccws. No feller in the Miami bottoms as could hold a candle to Andy Potter huntin’ cows. It’s a fact, if I do say it, col—captain, I mean. Even dad hed to knock under thar, an’ say Andy waz just good fur a cowboy, an’ nothin’ else. Ef he goes to war the fool’ll run ’fore he smells gunpowder, he will, says dad—-—”? ‘“‘T can bear testimony to the fact that you have done well to-day, Potter. I don’t believe there’s a. braver man in the army,’’ Chetwood interrupted. ‘‘Sho! don’t go pokin’ fun at-me, captain.”? “It’s the truth, my. boy.”’ ‘‘Lord! and I’ve been weak’s a cat all day. If I hadn’t got that rap on the head, captain, I might amounted to somethin’.”’ The two men, unmindful of the fire, were moving at a walk across the field on the return... There was not a cooler man on the field than Andy Potter, great, lank, awkward-looking fellow that he was, and Captain Chetwood could not help admiring his coolness under cicrumstances calculated to shake the strongest nerves. | ‘‘Hello! Look thar!”’ : As they went back a horseman was seen moving a = comicbooks.co