. Brave deeds of Confederate soldiers . irst quicken his flight, would soon ex-pose his feet to sharp laceration, and thus in theend seriously impede his progress; but he had notime to think of this; and following the example ofhis companions, he made for the nearest covert aspromising the earliest concealment. In the meanwhile the enraged pursuers had startedfrom the camp, and they had scattered at once sowidely that, unless the scout could make his waytowards the mountains, every avenue of escapewould be closed; and even this avenue appeared afew minutes later to be shut when he saw a squado
. Brave deeds of Confederate soldiers . irst quicken his flight, would soon ex-pose his feet to sharp laceration, and thus in theend seriously impede his progress; but he had notime to think of this; and following the example ofhis companions, he made for the nearest covert aspromising the earliest concealment. In the meanwhile the enraged pursuers had startedfrom the camp, and they had scattered at once sowidely that, unless the scout could make his waytowards the mountains, every avenue of escapewould be closed; and even this avenue appeared afew minutes later to be shut when he saw a squadof cavalry galloping towards the foothills to cuthim off from that asylum. He knew that he wasnow entirely surrounded and that nothing but thecoolness of his own nerve and his skill in wood-craft could save him from capture; which he wasfully aware would mean that he would be shot asa guerrilla; for while he still had on his Confederateuniform, a proof that he was not a spy, yet he hadbeen in the immediate vicinity of the largest of the. ADVENTURES OF A SCOUT 237 Federal camps, and had shot down a Federal made up his mind that he would either getsafely away or kill as many of the enemy as hecould before he yielded up his own life. It was notthe first time that he had been in imminent peril,and now, as formerly, he did not despair of escap-ing. He quickly found himself in a large wood, and ashe ran forward with bare head and shoeless feet, hecould hear the enemy behind him and on eitherside shouting to each other, as they beat the covert,just as if he were some wild beast that could beforced out of his hiding place and shot as he leapedmadly into view. Like a fox followed by a pack ofhounds hot upon its scent, he turned, doubled, andcircled, in the hope of throwing the pursuers off histrack. He was soon driven out of that part of thewood where there was a heavy undergrowth, andunless he could get away from among the opentrees, the trunks of which alone afforded him any
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