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1  Tents sprang up like strange plants.
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2  You can believe me or not, jest as you like.
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3  Well, yeh kin b'lieve me er not, jest as yeh like.
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4  A mass of wet grass, marched upon, rustled like silk.
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5  Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.
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6  They were like two serpents crawling from the cavern of the night.
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7  It was now like one of those moving monsters wending with many feet.
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8  And if I once started to run, I'd run like the devil, and no mistake.
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9  The youth could occasionally see dark shadows that moved like monsters.
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10  The young girl, with pink cheeks and shining eyes, stood like a dauntless statue.
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11  Sometimes his anger at the commanders reached an acute stage, and he grumbled about the camp like a veteran.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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