. Uncle Sam's boys in the Philippines, or, Following the flag against the Moros . ight ad-vantage, for they are skilled users of the swordand creese, and when their blood is up they knowlittle in the way of terror. E-r-r-r-r-rip! It was the Gatling, at suchclose quarters, that now dismayed the brownmen. With no mean quality of heroism, theythrew themselves against the guns would seize that demon of machinery andhurl it over into the gully below. But the dough-boys, with bayonets stationed on the sides ofthe gun, thrust or stabbed them back. No nativeapproached the muzzle of the
. Uncle Sam's boys in the Philippines, or, Following the flag against the Moros . ight ad-vantage, for they are skilled users of the swordand creese, and when their blood is up they knowlittle in the way of terror. E-r-r-r-r-rip! It was the Gatling, at suchclose quarters, that now dismayed the brownmen. With no mean quality of heroism, theythrew themselves against the guns would seize that demon of machinery andhurl it over into the gully below. But the dough-boys, with bayonets stationed on the sides ofthe gun, thrust or stabbed them back. No nativeapproached the muzzle of the Gatling and livedto cause further trouble. In as wide an arc aspossible Sergeant Hal swung the nose of thepiece from side to side. Private Danton, standing close to Hal, readyto feed in the next belt of cartridges, fell witha Moro bullet in his brain. Another soldiersprang forward, snatched up the belt of am-munition and stood ready to feed. Fully twenty-five hundred rounds of Gatlingammunition were thus fired into the dense brownranks before the Moros felt that they could en-. Sergeant Hal Swung the Nose of the Gun from Side to Side. 201 THE SEW TOUKUUC LIBRARY ASTOR, AND ft IN THE PHILIPPINES 203 dure it no longer. On that narrow road theyhad failed to reach the piece itself. Four brownsharpshooters, back in the ranks, had been de-tailed by a Moro officer to climb a tree and fillwith lead the body of the indomitable youngsergeant. As the bullets sang past his head, Haldiscovered the tree, turned the Gatling muzzlethat way, and fairly shot the leaves off a portionof it. Two of the sharpshooters dropped, rid-dled through. The other pair dropped fromsheer terror. Now that the execution on that narrow moun-tain road was becoming more than flesh andblood could stand, the Moros broke in pell-mellconfusion. Forward, there, Lieutenant Prescott!yelled Captain Freeman. Give em thebayonet. But dont let your men get away fromyou. Prescotts answer was conveyed only by awave of his
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