"ground Arms!" : the Story of a Life ; a Romance of European War
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It was too late; the crib was already in flames, the straw under his hoofs, and his mane were in flames. I shot him through the head and he dropped dead, saved from horrible torture. Back I rushed into the field, into the smoke of powder, and the wild alarm of continual volleys of musketry, flying cannon balls, raging battle- cries. All around me, friend and foe, were absorbed in the tumult of contest. I could take no part in this feeling. I could think of nothing save the possibility that I ha...d already lost you. The engagement lasted two hours and the enemy abandoned the field. We did not "GROUND ARMS!" 97 pursue them. There was enough to do. A few hundred steps from the village, untouched by the fiames, stood a farmhouse with capacious granaries and stables. We collected our wounded and cared for them as well as possible. The dead were buried in the morning — and with them probably many yet alive, for it frequently hap- pens with the severely wounded that a species of tetanus causes the bodies to assume the rigidity of death.
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