shall remain to guard the camp. Are you ready?"
"Ready! ay, this hour past."
"Mount then, lad; the men have already been told
off, and are mustering down yonder where the deer gave
you such a licking."
Dick needed no second bidding. He vaulted on
Charlie's back, and along with their commander joined
the men, who were thirty as fine, hardy, reckless looking
fellows as one could desire for a forlorn-hope. They
were chatting and laughing while they examined their