Here, too, were the wounded men, over whom we erected awnings of blankets.

It was crowded and stifling in the pit, and I was for ever stealing out of it to the firing-line, and making a great to-do at carrying messages for father.
Our grave mistake had been in not forming the wagon-circle so as to inclose the spring.

This had been due to the excitement of the first attack, when we did not know how quickly it might be followed by a second one.

And now it was too late.

At fifteen rods' distance from the Indian position on the hill we did not dare unchain our wagons.