He planned to load his knapsack upon it.

He was escaping with his prize when a young girl rushed from the house and grabbed the animal's mane.
There followed a wrangle.

The young girl, with pink cheeks and shining eyes, stood like a dauntless statue.
The observant regiment, standing at rest in the roadway, whooped at once, and entered whole-souled upon the side of the maiden.

The men became so engrossed in this affair that they entirely ceased to remember their own large war.

They jeered the piratical private, and called attention to various defects in his personal appearance; and they were wildly enthusiastic in support of the young girl.
To her, from some distance, came bold advice.