Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 7: what you’re looking at

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BLACKEYES. CHAPTER I. THE ART OF WAR ACCORDING TO “ REGULATION.” “] ~HINK we will soon catch up to them, sir.” “The red rascals! I hope we may, but they run from us as quick as we come in sight, and will neyer offer us any thing like a fair fight. We would soon make mince-meat. of them, if we could, get them to stand, and if-they were not such arrant cowards and sneaking assassins,” “J. wish you would permit me to say what I think on that subject, major.” “ T have no objection, provided that you “will say nothing very silly, for it will serve to beguile this weary journey ta listen to your crude ideas. You are. very young, Lieutenant Bent, and you know little of the life of a soldier or of the art of war; but my officers are my military family, and. I like to encourage them., Let me hear what you have to suy, young gentleman,” : “I am ready to admit, six, ‘that the Inillesscnerpietiact Cheyennes, Arrapahoes, Sarpaackei or whatever we have met—are sneaking assassins, but I am not so well convinced that they are cowards. That which seems to us like coward- ice in them, is only their manner of fighting, and I am afraid that we shall never succeed in conquering them, ansihonet learn to make war upon them in their own style,” : “What! Do you know, young gentleman, that you ‘are Insulting the army of the United States, and its educated, trained, and veteran officers? I tell you, sir, there are no better soldiers in the world, than those which compose our regular army, and I may add that the discipline of the bat. talion which I haye the honor to command is very near per- fection, Are such men to be taught their business by a pack of howling and scampering savages, who maintain no order a ciso een ee .