"You cut down a tree by keepin' on cuttin' out chips with an axe, an' you smash up an army by hittin' an' hittin' an' keepin' on hittin'.

We ought to charge right out of our works an' jump on the Yankees with all our stren'th." The two walked on, followed by the soldiers who had come with them, and Dick heard no more.

But he was too cautious to stir for a long while.
He lay there until the cold began to make its way through his boots and heavy overcoat.

Then he rose carefully, brushed off the snow, and began his retreat toward the Union lines.

Four or five hundred yards further on and he met Colonel Winchester and his own comrades come back to search for him.