He'll be ready to fight again in a few days, and we must have struck a hard blow anyhow.

The enemy are not pursuing." "That's true," said Sherburne more cheerfully.

"Your argument is a good one." The army came to a ridge called Rude's Hill and stopped there.

Harry was already soldier enough to see that it was a strong position.

Before it flowed a creek which the melting snows in the mountains had swollen to a depth of eight or ten feet, and on another side was a fork of the Shenandoah, also swollen.