Such exhibitions were common to both sides, though if you gentlemen will pardon me for saying so, I think they were less frequent on ours.

We were fighting more immediately for existence.

We were fewer than you were, and we knew it; we felt more intensely that if each were not for all, then none was for any." The colonel's words made their impression.

Dryfoos said, with authority, "That is so." "Colonel Woodburn," Fulkerson called out, "if you'll work up those ideas into a short paper--say, three thousand words--I'll engage to make March take it." The colonel went on without replying: "But Mr.Lindau is right in characterizing some of the motives that led men to the cannon's mouth as no higher than business motives, and his comparison is the most forcible that he could have used.

I was very much struck by it." The hobby was out, the colonel was in the saddle with so firm a seat that no effort sufficed to dislodge him.