boy the dun,

And two have come back to Fort Bukloh where

there went forth but one.

And when they drew to the Quarter-Guard, full

twenty swords flew clear—

There was not a man but carried his feud with

the blood of the mountaineer.

"Ha' done! ha' done!" said the Colonel's son.

"Put up the steel at your sides!

Last night ye had struck at a Border thief—to-