"You can see how the line of smoke of our skirmishers on the hillside gets higher and higher." "I wish our regiment was there, Colonel," Bull said.

"We might do some good; while here we are of no more use than if we were a hundred miles away." "No, no, Bull, that is not the case.

If the French had not seen that this position was strongly held, they might have moved a division by this road and, if they had done so, they would have turned the main position altogether, and forced Wellington to fall back, at once.

So you see, we are doing good here; though I do not say that I should not like to be over there." "The French will soon be at the top of the hill," Herrara exclaimed.

"See how they are pushing upwards." "They certainly are gaining ground fast," Macwitty said.