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Sorely wounded and faint with loss of blood, I found myself on the skirt of the field near the wall which the Campbells had broken down to enable the light dragoons to turn our right flank. " c Weary with the battle of the past day, a soldier was leaning against the wall, screwing a fresh flint into the lock of his musket. On see- ing me move, he mercifully gave me a mouthful of water from his wooden canteen, and bound up my head with a shred torn from my plaid. I then begged him to help me a l...ittle way out of the field, as I was the sole support of an aged mother, and must live if possible. The good fellow said it was as much as his life was worth, were it VOL. I. Q 226 the king's own known that he had spared mine ; but as he, too, had an old mother in the lowlands far away, for her sake he would run the risk of assisting me. " ' The morning was yet dark and we were unseen. He half carried, half dragged me for more than a mile, till we reached a thicket where I was in safety from the parties who were butcher- ing the wounded.
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