1 Tents sprang up like strange plants.
2 You can believe me or not, jest as you like.
3 Well, yeh kin b'lieve me er not, jest as yeh like.
4 A mass of wet grass, marched upon, rustled like silk.
5 Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.
6 They were like two serpents crawling from the cavern of the night.
7 It was now like one of those moving monsters wending with many feet.
8 And if I once started to run, I'd run like the devil, and no mistake.
9 The youth could occasionally see dark shadows that moved like monsters.
10 The young girl, with pink cheeks and shining eyes, stood like a dauntless statue.
11 Sometimes his anger at the commanders reached an acute stage, and he grumbled about the camp like a veteran.
12 Don't forgit about the socks and the shirts, child; and I've put a cup of blackberry jam with yer bundle, because I know yeh like it above all things.
13 All attempts failed to bring forth any statement which looked in any way like a confession to those doubts which he privately acknowledged in himself.
14 Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight like fun.
15 In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun; and against it, black and patternlike, loomed the gigantic figure of the colonel on a gigantic horse.
16 Some talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were advancing with relentless curses and chewing tobacco with unspeakable valor; tremendous bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping along like the Huns.
17 The army makes 'em wild, and they like nothing better than the job of leading off a young feller like you, as ain't never been away from home much and has allus had a mother, an' a-learning 'em to drink and swear.'
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