Si Klegg: Si and Shorty meet MrRosenbaum, the spy, who relates his adventures . then climbed intothe other saddle. The rebels were now falling back rapidly beforeCo. Qs fire. A small part> detached itself andstarted do^^Tl a side road. Si and Shorty gave a yell, and galloped towardthem, in full sight ofCo. Q. who raised a rebels spurred their horses, but Si and Shortygained on them. Come on. Shorty. Si yelled. I dont believetheyve got a shot left. They haint fired once sincethey started. He was right. Their cartridge-boxes had beenemptied. At the bottom of the hill a creek crossin
Si Klegg: Si and Shorty meet MrRosenbaum, the spy, who relates his adventures . then climbed intothe other saddle. The rebels were now falling back rapidly beforeCo. Qs fire. A small part> detached itself andstarted do^^Tl a side road. Si and Shorty gave a yell, and galloped towardthem, in full sight ofCo. Q. who raised a rebels spurred their horses, but Si and Shortygained on them. Come on. Shorty. Si yelled. I dont believetheyve got a shot left. They haint fired once sincethey started. He was right. Their cartridge-boxes had beenemptied. At the bottom of the hill a creek crossing the roadmade a deep, wide quagmire. The rebels were intoo much hurry to pick out whatever road theremight have been through it. Their leaders plungedin. their horses sank nearly to the knees, and thewhole party bunched up. Surrender, you rebel galoots. yelled Si. reiningup at a little distance, and bringing his gun to bear. A PERIOD OF SELF-DISGUST. 117 Surrender, you offscourings of secession, addedShorty. The rebels looked back, held up their hands, andsaid imploringly:. SI AND SHORTY AS MOUNTED INFANTRY. Dont shoot, Mister. Weuns give up. Weunsair taylored. Come back up here, one by one, commanded Si, 118 SI KLEGG. and go to our rear. Hold on to your guns. Dontthrow em away. We aint afraid of em. One by one the rebels extricated their horses fromthe mire with more or less difficulty and filed kept his gun on those in the quagmire, whileShorty attended to the others as they came Q was coming to his assistance as fast as theboys could march. What was the delight of the boys to recognize intheir captives the squad which had captured sanguinary Bushrod was the first to come back,and Si had to restrain a violent impulse to knockhim off his horse with his gun-barrel. But he de-cided to settle with him when through with thepresent business. By the time the rebels were all up, Co. Q hadarrived on the scene. As the prisoners were beingdisarmed and put unde
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