snow-balls containing marbles.

After this, both sides never failed to freeze their ammunition.
It was no longer child's play to march up to the walls of Fort Slatter, nor was the position of the besieged less perilous.

At every assault three or four boys on each side were disabled.

It was not an infrequent occurrence for the combatants to hold up a flag of truce while they removed some insensible comrade.
Matters grew worse and worse.

Seven North-Enders had been seriously wounded, and a dozen South-Enders were reported on the sick list.
The selectmen of the town awoke to the fact of what was going on, and detailed a posse of police to prevent further disturbance.