Be careful," he added sternly.

"It is no time for trifling.
Remember your father, and the mother who is waiting for you at home.
Joe, my boy, it is a fight for life, and you must make every shot tell." For the moment I felt chilled with horror; and a sensation of dread seemed to paralyse me.

Then came the reaction, with the thought that if I did not act like a man I should never see those I loved again.

This, too, was supplemented, as it were, by that spirit of what the French call _camaraderie_, that spirit which makes one forget self; and thinking that I had to defend my two companions from the enemy I raised the barrel of my piece upon the low breastwork, ready to fire on the first enemy who should approach.
"Look," said Ti-hi just then, for he was picking up scraps of our tongue; and following his pointing finger I made out the black bodies of several savages creeping to posts of vantage from whence they would be able to shoot.
"Take care," said the doctor sternly, as an arrow nearly grazed my ear.
"If one of those arrows gives ever so slight a wound it may prove fatal, my lad; don't expose yourself in the least.

Ah! the game must begin in earnest," he said partly under his breath.
As he spoke he took aim at a man who was climbing from rock to rock to gain the spot from which the other had been dislodged.