1 Men were running hither and thither.
2 Out of this haze they could see running men.
3 The colonel came running along the back of the line.
4 Directly the youth could see the skirmishers running.
5 Presently, men were running hither and thither in all ways.
6 Across the smoke-infested fields came a brown swarm of running men who were giving shrill yells.
7 He caught changing views of the ground covered with men who were all running like pursued imps, and yelling.
8 The hoofs of his horse often threatened the heads of the running men, but they scampered with singular fortune.
9 They could be seen plainly--tall, gaunt men with excited faces running with long strides toward a wandering fence.
10 He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.
11 Turning his head swiftly, the youth saw his friend running in a staggering and stumbling way toward a little clump of bushes.
12 Spread over the grass and in among the tree trunks, he could see knots and waving lines of skirmishers who were running hither and thither and firing at the landscape.
13 And the men of the regiment, with their starting eyes and sweating faces, running madly, or falling, as if thrown headlong, to queer, heaped-up corpses--all were comprehended.
14 One gray dawn, however, he was kicked in the leg by the tall soldier, and then, before he was entirely awake, he found himself running down a wood road in the midst of men who were panting from the first effects of speed.