If you'll examine the earth out there tomorrow you'll find our footprints only five times to the mile." Far to the right and left other scattering shots had been fired, where skirmishers in the night came in touch with one another.

Hence the adventure of Harry and St.Clair attracted but little attention.
Shots at long range were fired nearly every night, and sometimes it was difficult to keep the raw recruits from pulling trigger merely for the pleasure of hearing the report.
But when Harry and St.Clair related the incident the next morning to Colonel Talbot, he spoke with gravity.
"There are many young men of birth and family in our army," he said, "and they must learn that war is a serious business.

It is more than that; it is a deadly business, the most deadly business of all.

If the Yankees had caught you two, it would have served you right." "They scared us badly enough as it was, sir," said St.Clair.
Colonel Leonidas Talbot smiled slightly.
"That part of it at least will do you good," he said.

"You young men don't know what war is, and you are growing fat and saucy in a pleasant country in June.