They'll give us a tough fight now whenever we meet 'em." "I agree with you," said Sherburne, "but they can't beat us.

You can ride back in the morning, Harry, and report to the commander-in-chief that he alone can move us from this position.

Listen to that stamping of hoofs! Among ten thousand horses a lot are likely to be restless; and look there at the hilltop where thirty good guns are ready to turn their mouths on any foe." "I see them all," said Harry, "and I think you're right.

I'll ride back peaceably to General Lee in the morning, and tell him that I left ten thousand cavalrymen lying lazily on the grass, and ten thousand horses eating their heads off near Brandy Station." "But to-night you rest," said one of the young officers.

"Do you smoke ?" "I've never learned." "Well, I don't smoke either unless we get 'em from the Yankees.