Wonderful! wonderful! You'll soon have a great head on you, Frank." "If some rebel cannoneer doesn't shoot it off in the coming battle.

By George, we're driving their skirmishers before us! They don't seem to make any stand at all!" The vanguard certainly met with no very formidable resistance as it advanced over the rolling country.

The sound of firing was continuous, but it came from small squads here and there, and after firing a few volleys the men in gray invariably withdrew.
Yet the Northern advance was slow.

Colonel Winchester became intensely impatient again.
"Why don't we hurry!" he exclaimed.

"Of all things in the world the one that we need most is haste.