He is well pleased with its appearance now, and with your state of health.

He says that you Rangers are marvellous tough customers, whether as soldiers or as patients.

You take a great deal of killing!" Fritz smiled in response to the boy's bright look, but there was anxiety in his face too.
"Can you tell me aught of the Rangers ?" he said.

"You, doubtless, know how we were set upon and dispersed a few days back." "Yes; and our Captain of the fort is right glad at it," said the boy, "for Rogers led him a dog's life with his raids and robberies.
But all is fair in love and war, and it is not for us to complain of what we ourselves have provoked and should do in like circumstances.

Nevertheless there is rejoicing at Ticonderoga that the Rangers are dispersed and broken for the present.