Turning to the troop, which had been decorously attentive, he bade them follow, saying "Come on, boys--we shall have to do without the stranger; he does not fight, it seems, for the fun of the thing.

If Pippin was here, doubtless, we should have arguments enough from the pair to keep _them_ in whole bones, at least, if nobody else." A laugh of bitter scorn followed the remark of Munro, as the party went on its way.
Though inwardly assured of the propriety of his course, Ralph could not help biting his lip with the mortification he felt from this circumstance, and which he was compelled to suppress; and we hazard nothing in the assertion when we say, that, had his sympathies been at all enlisted with the assailing party, the sarcasm of its leader would have hurried him into the very first rank of attack.

As it was, such was its influence upon him, that, giving spur to his steed, he advanced to a position which, while it afforded him a clear survey of the whole field, exposed his person not a little to the shot of either party, as well from without as from within the beleaguered district.
The invading force soon commenced the affair.

They came to the attack after the manner of the Indians.

The nature of forest-life, and its necessities, of itself teaches this mode of warfare.