Mr.Prescott was guarding his prisoner as I arrived, sir, and that was the prisoner!" Corporal Hasbrouck pointed in disdain at the stuffed figure that he had hauled out from under the bushes and Dick's bayonet.
"A stuffed figure, in gray trousers and shirt, eh ?" questioned Captain Reynolds.

"Sentry, were the two or three men who got away from you of the same composition ?" "I don't know, sir," Dick answered, with mortification.

"All I know, sir, is that those who got away ran pretty fast, and made so little noise that they doubtless wore rubber-soled shoes." "You've been hoaxed, sentry," commented the officer of the day dryly.

"Corporal, have your men of the guard bring the prisoner up to the guard tent.

Sentry, if any more straw men attempt to cross your post, bring them down as well as you did this one.