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+Project Gutenberg's Red, White, Blue Socks.  Part Second, by Sarah L. Barrow
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+Title: Red, White, Blue Socks.  Part Second
+       Being the Second Book of the Series
+
+Author: Sarah L. Barrow
+
+Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29594]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RED, WHITE, BLUE SOCKS.  ***
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+[Illustration: BULL RUN.]
+
+
+
+THE SOCK STORIES,
+
+BY "AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER.
+
+RED, WHITE, AND BLUE SOCKS.
+
+Part Second.
+
+BEING
+
+THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SERIES.
+
+BY
+
+"AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER,
+
+THE AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE WHITE ANGEL."
+
+          NEW YORK:
+          LEAVITT & ALLEN, 21 & 23 MERCER ST.
+          1863.
+
+
+
+
+  ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
+  S. L. BARROW,
+  In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
+    for the
+  Southern District of New York.
+
+  JOHN F. TROW,
+  PRINTER, STEREOTYPER, AND ELECTROTYPER,
+  50 Greene Street, New York.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
+
+
+                                                 PAGE
+
+  COLONEL FREDDY; OR, THE MARCH AND ENCAMPMENT
+      OF THE DASHAHED ZOUAVES,
+
+  CHAP. I.--BELLIGERENT POWERS,                     5
+
+       II.--BULL RUN,                              30
+
+      III.--BEFORE MONTEREY,                       50
+
+      IV.--A GRAND REVIEW,                         87
+
+       V.--"HOME! SWEET HOME!"                    111
+
+  CONCLUSION,                                     125
+
+
+
+
+COLONEL FREDDY;
+
+OR,
+
+THE MARCH AND ENCAMPMENT OF THE DASHAHED ZOUAVES.
+
+PART II.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+BELLIGERENT POWERS.
+
+
+TUESDAY morning dawned "as clear as a bell," as an old lady once said,
+and the Dashahed Zouaves, if not exactly up with the sun, were awake and
+stirring at a much earlier hour than usual; and after a rather more
+careful washing and brushing than soldiers usually indulge in,
+assembled on the lawn, looking as bright as their own buttons.
+
+"What fun it is to be soldiers!" cried a little lisping fellow, one of
+the privates. "I only wish thome Southerners would come along now, and
+you'd thee how I'd _thmash_ 'em."
+
+"Bravo, Louie!" said Harry, laughing; "I dare say, if we were to go to
+the wars, you'd keep on fighting the battles of your country till you
+were chopped into inch bits!"
+
+"And pickled! I expect to be made Lieutenant-general,
+Commander-in-chief, Colonel, Major, Captain, Lieutenant, Sergeant
+Hamilton at the very least!"
+
+"Pooh! that's nothing to the feats of bravery I intend to perform!"
+cried Peter. "In my first battle I shall capture a 2,000-pound
+columbiad with one hand tied behind me, and carry it home for a paper
+weight!"
+
+"While I'm charging a regiment of mounted infantry single handed, and
+making them throw away their swords, and pistols, and things, and run
+for that 'last ditch' of theirs double quick!" said Will Costar,
+laughing; "but here comes breakfast, I'm happy to say. It strikes me
+camping out makes a fellow awful hungry, as well as no end of brave."
+
+A servant who had been sent from the house with breakfast materials, now
+approached, and the table being laid, the soldiers drew their camp
+stools around it; Colonel Freddy sitting at the head and pouring out
+coffee with great gravity. Everything was going on smoothly enough, when
+Harry tilted the tray on one side, and Charley knocked his elbow on the
+other, and away went the coffee to the very end of the table!
+
+"Charley," exclaimed the Colonel, severely, "what do you mean, sir? I'll
+have you put in arrest if you don't look out!"
+
+"Who'll put me there?"
+
+"Me!" shouted Peter. "I'm the boy to manage refractories. You'll see how
+I will come after you with a sharp stick--bayonet, I mean--and put you
+in arrest like that!" snapping his fingers.
+
+"By the way, when we've caught our rebels, where is the prison to be?"
+asked Jimmy.
+
+"Why, in the smoke house. There's a patent spring bolt on the
+door--father had it fixed the last time we had hams made; and if anybody
+was once in there, they'd never get out in the world, unless they could
+draw themselves fine like a wire and squeeze through the chimney."
+
+"We'll take care to keep out of it, then!" said Charley; "so, Colonel, I
+beg pardon for tilting the biggin--I didn't mean to do it so
+much--really!"
+
+"I, too!" cried Harry; "shake hands, old chap!"
+
+Good-tempered Freddy, always ready to "make up," caught a hand of each
+of his comrades, and breakfast went on amicably.
+
+Now, there lived in the house an old English man servant named Jerry
+Pike. He had formerly been a groom and attendant on Peter's uncle, Major
+Schermerhorn, and volunteered in the army at the time of the war with
+Mexico, that he might follow his dear master, whom he had served and
+loved ever since the Major was a mere boy. He had fought bravely beside
+him in many a hard battle, and, for his gallant conduct, been promoted
+to the rank of sergeant. When the hand of death removed that kind
+master, Mr. Schermerhorn had gladly taken Jerry to his own house, and
+promised him that should be his home as long as he lived. So now, like
+a gallant old war horse, who has a fresh green paddock, and lives in
+clover in his infirm age, Jerry not only stood at ease, but lived at
+ease; and worked or not as he felt disposed.
+
+When breakfast was over, Peter suddenly cried out, "I say, fellows,
+suppose we employ ourselves by having a drill! You know old Jerry that I
+told you about? I'll ask him to give us a lesson!"
+
+"Yes! that will be grand fun!" said Freddy. "Do go and find him, Peter;
+I should really like to learn how to drill as the soldiers do; so when
+General McClellan comes along, he'll admire us as much as the English
+General, old Sir Goutby Slogo, did the Seventh Regiment when they
+paraded before the Prince. 'Really, most extraordinary style of marching
+these American troops have,' said he, 'most hequal to the 'Orse Guards
+and the Hoxford Blues coming down Regent street!'"
+
+Meanwhile, Peter had scampered off to the house, and in a short time
+returned with a comical-looking little old man, dressed in faded
+regimentals.
+
+He touched his cap to the boys as he approached, in military style, and
+then drew himself up so very stiff and straight, awaiting their orders,
+that, as Freddy whispered to Tom, it was a perfect wonder he didn't snap
+short off at the waist.
+
+"Now, Jerry," began the Colonel, "we want you to give us a _real_
+drill, you know, just as you used to learn."
+
+"Yes, a regular one!" chimed in the rest; "we'll run for our guns."
+
+"Not fur your fust drill, I reckon, genl'men. You'll do bad enough
+without 'em, hech, hech!" cackled Jerry.
+
+"Very well--come begin then, Jerry!" cried impatient Will.
+
+"Are ye all ready?"
+
+"Yes, and waiting."
+
+"Then, genl'men, FALL IN!" exclaimed the sergeant, the first two words
+being uttered in his natural voice, but the last in an awful sepulchral
+tone, like two raps on the base kettle drum. Off duty, Jerry rather
+resembled a toy soldier, but when in giving his orders he stiffened his
+body, threw up his head, and stuck out his hands, he looked so like the
+wooden figures out of Noah's ark, that the boys burst into a shout of
+laughter.
+
+"Now, genl'men," exclaimed Jerry in a severe tone, "this won't do.
+Silence in the ranks. Squad! 'Shun. The fust manoover I shel teach you,
+genl'men, is the manoover of 'parade rest.' Now look at me, and do as I
+do."
+
+Anybody would have supposed, naturally enough, that to stand at rest
+meant to put your hands in your pockets and lean against a tree; but
+what Jerry did, was to slap his right hand against his left, like a
+torpedo going off, and fold them together; stick out his left foot, lean
+heavily upon his right, and look more like a Dutch doll than ever.
+
+The boys accordingly endeavored to imitate this performance; but when
+they came to try it, a difficulty arose. Whatever might be their usual
+ideas on the subject, there was a diversity of opinion now as to the
+proper foot to be advanced, and a wild uncertainty which was the left
+foot. The new soldiers shuffled backward and forward as if they were
+dancing hornpipes; while Jerry shouted, "Now, then, genl'men, I can't
+hear them hands come together smartly as I'd wished, not like a row of
+Jarsey cider bottles a poppin' one arter the other, but all at once.
+Now, then, SQUAD! 'SHUN!" in a voice of thunder, "Stan' at parade rest!
+No--no--them _lef futs_ adwanced! Well if ever!" And Jerry in his
+indignation gave himself such a thump on his chest that he knocked all
+the breath out of his body, and had to wait some moments before he could
+go on; while the boys, bubbling over with fun, took his scoldings in
+high good humor, and shrieked with laughter at their own ridiculous
+blunders, to the high wrath of their ancient instructor; who was so
+deeply interested and in earnest about his pursuit, that he didn't fail
+to lecture them well for their "insubornation;" which, indeed, nobody
+minded, except Tom Pringle, who, by the by, was from Maryland, and many
+of whose relations were down South. He had been looking rather sulky
+from the beginning of the drill, and now suddenly stepped from his place
+in the ranks, exclaiming, "I won't play! now I vow I won't!"
+
+"Why, Tom, what is the matter? Are you mad at us?" cried half a dozen
+voices at once.
+
+"Humm--" grumbled sulky Tom.
+
+"What say? I can't hear you," said Freddy. "Nonsense, Tom, don't be
+poky, come back and drill."
+
+"I won't! Let us alone, will you?"
+
+"All we want is, let us alone!" chanted Peter. "There, Fred, let him be
+cross if he wants to, we can play without him;" and the boys ran back to
+their places in the ranks, Freddy calling out, "Come fellows, let's try
+that old parade rest once more;" and on Jerry's giving the command, they
+really _did_ do it this time, and were pronounced capable of passing to
+grander evolutions.
+
+The first of these was the turn about so as to fall in ranks; something
+the Dashahed Zouaves hadn't dreamt of before. Get into ranks? Nothing
+could be easier than to stand four in a row, as they had done before;
+but when it came to "right face," most of the soldiers were found to
+have opposite views on the subject, and faced each other, to their
+mutual astonishment. The natural consequence was, that in three seconds
+the regiment was in such a snarl and huddle, that no one could tell
+which rank he belonged to or anything else; so Jerry, perfectly purple
+in the face with shouting, by way of helping them out of the scrape,
+gave them the following remarkable advice: "Squad, 'shun! At th' wud
+'Foz' the rer-rank will stepsmartly off wi' th' leffut, tekkinapesstoth'
+rare--Fo-o-o-res!"
+
+"W-h-a-t!" was the unanimous exclamation.
+
+Jerry repeated his mandate, which, after infinite puzzling (the honest
+sergeant being no assistance whatever), was discovered to mean, "At the
+word 'Fours,' the rear rank will step smartly off with the left foot,
+taking a pace to the rear. Fours!"
+
+This difficulty solved, the next "article on the programme," as Peter
+said, was the command March! or "harch!" according to Jerry.
+
+Out stepped Freddy, confident that he knew this much at any rate,
+followed by the others; but here again that celebrated left foot got
+them into trouble. The right foot _would_ pop out here and there, and as
+sure as it did, at the third step the unlucky Zouave found his leg
+firmly stuck between the ankles of the boy in front; and the "man"
+behind him treading on his heels in a way calculated to aggravate a
+saint; while meantime, the fellows in the rear rank, who were forever
+falling behind while they were staring at their feet to make sure which
+was the left one, _would_ endeavor to make up for it by taking a wide
+straddling step all of a sudden, and encircled the legs of people in
+front; a proceeding which, not being in accordance with "Hardee's
+Tactics," was not received with approbation by Jerry; who, looking at
+them with a sort of deprecating pity, hoarsely said, "Now, Company D!
+wot--wrong agin? fowod squad! wun, too, three, foore; hup! hup! hup!
+hold your head up, Mr. Fred; turn out your toes, Master William, and
+keep STEADY!"
+
+"Goody!" exclaimed Freddy at last, stopping short in the middle of his
+marching, "I can't stand this any longer! There, Jerry, we've had drill
+enough, thank you; I am knocked into a cocked hat, for my part!"
+
+"Very well, sir; it _is_ powerful hot; an' I must say you young genl'men
+have kep' at it steadier nor I expected, a gred deal."
+
+"Thank you, Jerry," said George, laughing, "we shall not forget our
+first drill in a hurry. I can't tell, for my part, which has been most
+bothered, you or we."
+
+"Allers glad to give you a little practice," grinned Jerry, "though
+you'd rive the gizzard out of an army drill sergeant, I'd wenture to
+say, if he hed the teachin' of you. Hech! hech! hech! Mornin', genl'men,
+your sarvent," and Jerry touched his cap to Colonel Freddy and marched
+off chuckling.
+
+As soon as he had made his exit, the boys clustered around Tom, as he
+sat turning his back on as many of the company as possible, and all
+began in a breath, "Now, Tom, do tell us what you're mad at; what have
+we done? please speak!"
+
+"Well, then," shouted Tom, springing up, "I'll tell you what, Frederic
+Jourdain! I won't be ordered around by any old monkey like
+that,"--pointing toward Jerry--"and as for _you_ and _your_ ordering
+about, I won't stand that either! fine as you think yourself; the
+Colonel, indeed!"
+
+"Why, Tom, how can you talk so? can't you play like the rest of us? I'm
+sure I haven't taken advantage of being Colonel to be domineering; have
+I, boys?"
+
+"No, no! not a bit, Fred--never mind what he says!"
+
+"Oh _do_--_don't_ appeal to them! You do that because you daren't say
+outright you mean to have everything your own way. That may be very well
+for them--you're all a parcel of Yankee shopkeepers together--but, I can
+tell you, no Southern _gentleman_ will stand it!"
+
+"North or South, Tom," began Will Costar, pretty sharply, "every
+regiment must have a head--and obey the head. We've chosen Fred our
+Colonel, and you must mind him. When he tells you to drill you've _got
+to do it_!"
+
+Tom wheeled round perfectly furious. "You say that again," he shouted,
+"and I'll leave the regiment! I will. I won't be told by any Northerner
+that I'm his subordinate, and if my State hadn't thought so too, she'd
+never have left the Union."
+
+"What! you dare to say anything against the Union!" cried George,
+turning white with rage; "do you mean to say that you _admire_ the South
+for seceding?"
+
+"Yes! I've a great mind to secede myself, what's more!"
+
+Freddy, as I said, was as sweet-tempered a little fellow as ever lived;
+but he was fairly aroused now. His blue eyes flashed fire; he crimsoned
+to the temples; his fists were clenched--and shouting, "you traitor!"
+like a flash, he sent Tom flying over on his back, with the camp stool
+about his ears.
+
+Up jumped Tom, kicked away the stool, and rushed toward Fred. But the
+others were too quick for him; they seized his arms and dragged him
+back; Peter calling out "No, don't fight him, Colonel; he's not worth
+it; let's have a court martial--that's the way to serve traitors!"
+
+Amid a perfect uproar of rage and contempt for this shameful attack on
+their Colonel, the Zouaves hastily arranged some camp stools for judge
+and jury; and George being chosen judge, the oldest members of the
+regiment took their places around him, and Tom was hauled up before the
+Court.
+
+"Oh stop, pray stop!" cried Freddy at this stage of affairs. "Indeed, I
+forgive him for what he said to me, if he will take back his language
+about the Union. I can't stand _that_."
+
+"You hear what the Colonel says," said George, sternly; "will you
+retract?"
+
+"No, never! if you think I'm going to be frightened into submission to a
+Northerner you're very much mistaken! No Southerner will ever be that!
+and as for your precious Union, I don't care if I say I hope there never
+will be a Union any more."
+
+"Then, by George!" shouted the judge, fairly springing from his seat,
+"You're a traitor, sir! Fellows, whoever is in favor of having this
+secessionist put under arrest, say Aye!"
+
+"Aye! AYE! AYE!" in a perfect roar.
+
+"Does any one object?" Nobody spoke.
+
+"Then I sentence him to be confined in the guard house till he begs
+pardon; Livingston, Costar, and Boorman to take him there."
+
+His captors pounced upon their prisoner with very little ceremony when
+this sentence was pronounced; when Tom, without attempting to escape,
+suddenly commenced striking out at every one he could reach. A grand
+hurley-burley ensued; but before long Tom was overpowered and dragged to
+the smoke, _alias_ guard house; heaping insults and taunts on the Union
+and the regiment all the way. Harry flung open the door of the prison,
+a picturesque little hut built of rough gray stone, and covered with
+Virginia creepers and wild honeysuckles. The others pushed Tom in, and
+Peter, dashing forward, slammed the door on him with a bang. Snap! went
+the bolt, and now nothing earthly could open it again but a Bramah key
+or a gunpowder explosion. Young Secession was fast, and the North
+triumphant. Hurrah!
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+BULL RUN.
+
+
+THEIR first excitement over, the gallant Zouaves couldn't help looking
+at each other in rather a comical way. To be sure, it was very
+aggravating to have their country run down, and themselves assailed
+without leave or license; but they were by no means certain, now they
+came to think of it, that they had acted rightly in doing justice to the
+little rebel in such a summary manner. Peter especially, who had
+proposed the court martial, had an instinctive feeling that if his
+father were to learn the action they had taken, he would scarcely
+consider it to tally with the exercise of strict politeness to company.
+In short, without a word said, there was a tacit understanding in the
+corps that this was an affair to be kept profoundly secret.
+
+While they were still silently revolving this delicate question, little
+Louie Hamilton suddenly started violently, exclaiming, "Only listen a
+moment, felloth! what a strange noithe! It sounds like thome wild
+beast!"
+
+"Noise? I don't hear any," said Freddy; "yes I do, though--like
+something trampling the bushes!"
+
+"There's nothing worse than four cows and a house dog about our place,"
+said Peter; "but what that is I don't know--hush!"
+
+The boys listened with all their ears and elbows, and nearly stared
+themselves blind looking around to see what was the matter. They had not
+long to wait, however, for the trampling increased in the wood, a
+curious, low growling was heard, which presently swelled to a roar, and
+in a moment more, an immense brindled bull was seen dashing through the
+locusts, his head down and heels in the air, looking not unlike a great
+wheel-barrow, bellowing at a prodigious rate, and making straight toward
+the place where they stood!
+
+"Murder, what _shall_ we do?" cried Louie, turning deadly pale with
+terror, while the Zouaves, for an instant, appeared perfectly paralyzed.
+
+"Why run! run for your lives!" shouted George, who was the first to
+recover himself. "Peter, you lead the way; take us the shortest cut to
+the house, and--oh!"
+
+Not another word did George utter. He was saving his breath for the
+race. And now, indeed, began a most prodigious "skedaddle;" the boys
+almost flying on ahead, running nearly abreast, and their terrible enemy
+close behind, tearing up the ground with his horns, and galloping like
+an express!
+
+On sped the gallant Zouaves, making off as rapidly from the scene of
+action as their namesakes from Manassas, without pausing to remark
+which way the wind blew, until, at last, they had skirted the grove, and
+were on the straight road for the house. Here Peter stopped a moment,
+"Because some of the men will be near here, perhaps," he pantingly said,
+"and Master Bull will be caught if he ventures after us." Scarcely had
+he spoken, when the furious animal was once more seen, dashing on faster
+than ever, and flaming with rage, till he might have exploded a powder
+mill! Now for a last effort! One determined burst over the smooth road,
+and they are safe in the house!
+
+Little Louie, who was only nine years old, and the youngest of the
+party, had grasped hold of Freddy's hand when they first started; and
+been half pulled along by him so far; but now that safety was close at
+hand, he suddenly sank to the ground, moaning out, "Oh Fred, you must go
+on and leave me; I can't run any more. Oh mamma!"
+
+"No, no, Louie! don't do so!" cried Freddy. "Get up, little man! why,
+you can't think I would leave you, surely?" and, stooping down, the
+brave little fellow caught Louie up in his arms, and, thus burdened,
+tried to run on toward the house.
+
+The rest of the boys were now far beyond them; and had just placed their
+feet upon the doorstone, when a loud shout of "help!" made them turn
+round; and there was Freddy, with Louie in his arms, staggering up the
+road, the horns of the bull within a yard of his side!
+
+Like a flash of lightning, Will snatched up a large rake which one of
+the men had left lying on the grass, and dashed down the road. There is
+one minute to spare, just one! but in that minute Will has reached the
+spot, and launching his weapon, the iron points descend heavily on the
+animal's head.
+
+The bull, rather aghast at this reception, which did not appear to be at
+all to his taste, seemed to hesitate a moment whether to charge his
+adversary or not; then, with a low growl of baffled fury, he slowly
+turned away, and trotted off toward the wood.
+
+The help had not come a minute too soon; for Freddy, his sensitive
+organization completely overwrought by the events of the morning and his
+narrow escape from death, had fallen fainting to the ground; his hands
+still clenched in the folds of little Louie's jacket. Will instantly
+raised him, when he saw that all danger was over, and he and some of the
+others, who had come crowding down the road, very gently and quickly
+carried the insensible boy to the house, and laid him on the lounge in
+the library; while Peter ran for the housekeeper to aid in bringing him
+to life.
+
+Good Mrs. Lockitt hurried up stairs as fast as she could with camphor,
+ice water, and everything else she could think of good for fainting.
+
+"Mrs. Lockitt, where is papa?" asked Peter, as he ran on beside her.
+
+"Gone to New York, Master Peter," she replied; "I don't think he will be
+home before dinner time."
+
+Our little scapegrace breathed more freely; at least there were a few
+hours' safety from detection, and he reentered the library feeling
+considerably relieved.
+
+There lay Colonel Freddy, his face white as death; one little hand
+hanging lax and pulseless over the side of the lounge, and the ruffled
+shirt thrust aside from the broad, snowy chest. Harry stood over him,
+fanning his forehead; while poor Louie was crouched in a corner,
+sobbing as though his heart would break, and the others stood looking on
+as if they did not know what to do with themselves.
+
+Mrs. Lockitt hastened to apply her remedies; and soon a faint color came
+back to the cheek, and with a long sigh, the great blue eyes opened once
+more, and the little patient murmured, "Where am I?"
+
+"Oh, then he's not killed, after all!" cried Louie, running to his side.
+"Dear, dear Freddy! how glad I am you have come to life again!"
+
+This funny little speech made even Freddy laugh, and then Mrs. Lockitt
+said, "But, Master Peter, you have not told me yet how it happened that
+Master Frederic got in such a way."
+
+The eyes of the whole party became round and saucer-y at once; as, all
+talking together, they began the history of their fearful adventure.
+Mrs. Lockitt's wiry false curls would certainly have dropped off with
+astonishment if they hadn't been sewed fast to her cap, and she fairly
+wiped her eyes on her spectacle case, which she had taken out of her
+pocket instead of her handkerchief, as they described Freddy's noble
+effort to save his helpless companion without thinking of himself. When
+the narrative was brought to a close, she could only exclaim, "Well,
+Master Freddy, you are a little angel, sure enough! and Master William
+is as brave as a lion. To think of his stopping that great creetur, to
+be sure! Wherever in the world it came from is the mystery." So saying,
+Mrs. Lockitt bustled out of the room, and after she had gone, there was
+a very serious and grateful talk among the elder boys about the escape
+they had had, and a sincere thankfulness to God for having preserved
+their lives.
+
+The puzzle now was, how they were to return to the camp, where poor Tom
+had been in captivity all this time. It was certainly necessary to get
+back--but then the bull! While they were yet deliberating on the horns
+of this dilemma, the library door suddenly opened, and in walked--Mr.
+Schermerhorn!
+
+"Why, boys!" he exclaimed, "how do you come to be here? Fred, what's the
+matter? you look as pale as a ghost!"
+
+There was general silence for a moment; but these boys had been taught
+by pious parents to speak the truth always, whatever came of it. Ah!
+that is the right principle to go on, dear children; TELL THE TRUTH when
+you have done anything wrong, even if you are sure of being punished
+when that truth is known.
+
+So George, as the eldest, with one brave look at his comrades, frankly
+related everything that had happened; beginning at the quarrel with
+Tom, down to the escape from the bull. To describe the varied expression
+of his auditor's face between delight and vexation, would require a
+painter; and when George at last said, "Do you think we deserve to be
+punished, sir? or have we paid well enough already for our court
+martial?" Mr. Schermerhorn exclaimed, trying to appear highly incensed,
+yet scarcely able to help smiling:
+
+"I declare I hardly know! I certainly am terribly angry with you. How
+dare you treat a young gentleman so on my place? answer me that, you
+scapegraces! It is pretty plain who is at the bottom of all this--Peter
+dares not look at me, I perceive. At the same time, I am rather glad
+that Master Tom has been taught what to expect if he runs down the
+Union--it will probably save him from turning traitor any more, though
+you were not the proper persons to pass sentence on him. As for our
+plucky little Colonel here--shake hands, Freddy! you have acted like a
+hero! and for your sake I excuse the court martial. Now, let us see what
+has become of the bull, and then go to the release of our friend Tom. He
+must be thoroughly repentant for his misdeeds by this time."
+
+Mr. Schermerhorn accordingly gave orders that the bull should be hunted
+up and secured, until his master should be discovered; so that the
+Zouaves might be safe from his attacks hereafter. If any of our readers
+feel an interest in the fate of this charming animal, they are informed
+that he was, with great difficulty, hunted into the stables; and before
+evening taken away by his master, the farmer from whom he had strayed.
+
+Leaving the others to await his capture, let us return to Tom. He had
+not been ten minutes in the smoke house before his wrath began to cool,
+and he would have given sixpence for any way of getting out but by
+begging pardon. That was a little too much just yet, and Tom stamped
+with rage and shook the door; which resisted his utmost efforts to
+burst. Then came the sounds without, the rushing, trampling steps, the
+furious bellow, and the shout, "Run! run for your lives!" Run! why on
+earth must they? What had happened? and especially what would become of
+him left alone there, with this unseen enemy perhaps coming at him next.
+He hunted in vain in every direction for some cranny to peep through;
+and if it had been possible, would have squeezed his head up the
+chimney. He shouted for help, but nobody heard him; they were all too
+frightened for that. He could hear them crunching along the road,
+presently; another cry, and then all was still.
+
+"What shall I do?" thought poor Tom. "Oh, where have they gone to?
+Please let me out, Freddy! do forgive me, boys! I'll f-fight for the
+Union as m-much as you like! oh! oh!" and at last--must it be
+confessed?--the gallant Secesh finished by bursting out crying!
+
+Time passed on--of course seeming doubly long to the prisoner--and still
+the boys did not return. Tom cried till he could cry no more; sniffling
+desperately, and rubbing his nose violently up in the air--a proceeding
+which did not ameliorate its natural bent in that direction. He really
+felt thoroughly sorry, and quite ready to beg pardon as soon as the boys
+should return; particularly as they had forgotten to provide the captive
+with even the traditional bread and water, and dinner-time was close at
+hand. While he was yet struggling between repentance and stomachache,
+the welcome sound of their voices was heard. They came nearer, and then
+a key was hastily applied to the fastenings of the door, and it flew
+open, disclosing the Zouaves, with Freddy at the head, and Mr.
+Schermerhorn bringing up the rear.
+
+Tom hung back a moment yet; then with a sudden impulse he walked toward
+Freddy, saying, "I beg your pardon, Colonel; please forgive me for
+insulting you; and as for the flag"--and without another word, Tom ran
+toward the flag staff, and catching the long folds of the banner in both
+hands, pressed them to his lips.
+
+"The chivalry forever!" said Mr. Schermerhorn, smiling. "That's right,
+Tom! bless the old banner! it is your safeguard, and your countrymen's
+too, if they would only believe it. Go and shake hands with him, boys;
+he is in his right place now, and if ever you are tempted to quarrel
+again, I am sure North and South will both remember
+
+                            "BULL RUN!"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+BEFORE MONTEREY.
+
+
+IT is not necessary to describe the particular proceedings of the
+Dashahed Zouaves during every day of their camp life. They chattered,
+played, drilled, quarrelled a little once in a while, and made it up
+again, eat and slept considerably, and grew sunburnt to an astonishing
+degree.
+
+It was Thursday morning, the fourth of their delightful days in camp.
+Jerry had been teaching them how to handle a musket and charge
+bayonets, until they were quite excited, and rather put out that there
+was no enemy to practise on but the grasshoppers. At length, when they
+had tried everything that was to be done, Harry exclaimed, "I wish,
+Jerry, you would tell us a story about the wars! Something real
+splendid, now; perfectly crammed with Indians and scalps and awful
+battles and elegant Mexican palaces full of diamonds and gold saucepans
+and lovely Spanish girls carried off by the hair of their heads!"
+
+This flourishing rigmarole, which Harry delivered regardless of stops,
+made the boys shout with laughter.
+
+"You'd better tell the story yourself, since you know so much about
+it!" said Tom.
+
+"I allow you've never been in Mexico, sir," said Jerry, grinning. "I
+doubt but thar's palisses somewhar in Mexico, but I and my mates hev
+been thar, an' _we_ never seed none o' 'em. No, Master Harry, I can't
+tell ye sich stories as that, but I do mind a thing what happened on the
+field afore Monterey."
+
+The boys, delightedly exclaiming, "A story! a story! hurrah!" drew their
+camp stools around him; and Jerry, after slowly rubbing his hand round
+and round over his bristling chin, while he considered what to say
+first, began his story as follows:
+
+
+JERRY'S STORY.
+
+          "It wor a Sunday night, young genl'men, the 21st
+          of September, and powerful hot. We had been
+          fightin' like mad, wi' not a moment's rest, all
+          day, an' now at last wor under the canwas, they of
+          us as wor left alive, a tryin' to sleep. The
+          skeeters buzzed aroun' wonderful thick, and the
+          groun' aneath our feet wor like red-hot tin
+          plates, wi' the sun burnin' an blisterin' down. At
+          last my mate Bill says, says he, 'Jerry, my mate,
+          hang me ef I can stan' this any longer. Let you
+          an' me get up an' see ef it be cooler
+          out-o'-doors.'
+
+          "I wor tired enough wi' the day's fight, an'
+          worrited, too, wi' a wound in my shoulder; but
+          the tent wor no better nor the open field, an' we
+          got up an' went out. Thar wor no moon, but the sky
+          was wonderful full o' stars, so we could see how
+          we wor stannin' wi' our feet among the bodies o'
+          the poor fellows as had fired their last shot that
+          day. It wor a sight, young genl'men, what would
+          make sich as you sick an' faint to look on; but
+          sogers must larn not to min' it; an' we stood
+          thar, not thinkin' how awful it wor, and yet still
+          an' quiet, too.
+
+          "'Ah, Jerry,' says Bill--he wor a young lad, an'
+          brought up by a pious mother, I allow--'I dunnot
+          like this fightin' on the Sabba' day. The Lord
+          will not bless our arms, I'm afeard, if we go agin
+          His will so.'
+
+          "I laughed--more shame to me--an' said, 'I'm a
+          sight older nor you, mate, an' I've seed a sight
+          o' wictories got on a Sunday. The better the day,
+          the better the deed, I reckon.'
+
+          "'Well, I don't know,' he says; 'mebbe things is
+          allers mixed in time o' war, an' right an' wrong
+          change sides a' purpose to suit them as wants
+          battle an' tumult to be ragin'; but it don't go
+          wi' my grain, noways.'
+
+          "I hadn't experienced a change o' heart then, as I
+          did arterward, bless the Lord! an' I hardly
+          unnerstood what he said. While we wor a stannin'
+          there, all to onct too dark figgers kim a creepin'
+          over the field to'ard the Major's tent. 'Look
+          thar, Jerry,' whispered Bill, kind o' startin'
+          like, 'thar's some of them rascally Mexicans.' I
+          looked at 'em wi'out sayin' a wured, an' then I
+          went back to the tent fur my six-shooter--Bill
+          arter me;--fur ef it ain't the dooty o' every
+          Christian to extarminate them warmints o'
+          Mexicans, I'll be drummed out of the army
+          to-morrer.
+
+          "Wall, young genl'men--we tuck our pistols, and
+          slow and quiet we moved to whar we seed the two
+          Greasers, as they call 'em. On they kim, creepin'
+          to'ard my Major's tent, an' at las' one o' 'em
+          raised the canwas a bit. Bill levelled his
+          rewolver in a wink, an' fired. You shud ha' seed
+          how they tuck to their heels! yelling all the way,
+          till wun o' em' dropped. The other didn't stop,
+          but just pulled ahead. I fired arter him wi'out
+          touching him; but the noise woke the Major, an'
+          when he hearn wot the matter wor, he ordered the
+          alarm to be sounded an' the men turned out. 'It's
+          a 'buscade to catch us,' he says, 'an' I'm fur
+          being fust on the field.'
+
+          "Bill an' I buckled on our cartridge boxes, caught
+          up our muskets, an' were soon in the ranks. On we
+          marched, stiddy an' swift, to the enemy's
+          fortifications; an' wen we were six hundred yards
+          distant, kim the command, 'Double quick.' The sky
+          hed clouded up all of a suddent, an' we couldn't
+          see well where we wor, but thar was suthin' afore
+          us like a low, black wall. As we kim nearer, it
+          moved kind o' cautious like, an' when we wor
+          within musket range, wi' a roar like ten thousand
+          divils, they charged forred! Thar wor the flash
+          and crack o' powder, and the ring! ping! o' the
+          bullets, as we power'd our shot on them an' they
+          on us; but not another soun'; cr-r-r-ack went the
+          muskets on every side agin, an' the rascals wor
+          driven back a minnit. 'Charge bayonets!' shouted
+          the Major, wen he seed that. Thar wos a pause; a
+          rush forred; we wor met by the innimy half way;
+          an' then I hearn the awfullest o' created
+          soun's--a man's scream. I looked roun', an' there
+          wos Bill, lying on his face, struck through an'
+          through. Thar wos no time to see to him then, fur
+          the men wor fur ahead o' me, an' I hed to run an'
+          jine the rest.
+
+          "We hed a sharp, quick skirmish o' it--for ef thar
+          is a cowardly critter on the created airth it's a
+          Greaser--an' in less nor half an' hour wor beatin'
+          back to quarters. When all wor quiet agin, I left
+          my tent, an' away to look fur Bill. I sarched an'
+          sarched till my heart were almost broke, an at
+          last I cried out, 'Oh Bill, my mate, whar be you?'
+          an' I hearn a fibble v'ice say, 'Here I be,
+          Jerry!'
+
+          "I swon! I wor gladder nor anything wen I hearn
+          that. I hugged him to my heart, I wor moved so
+          powerful, an' then I tuck him on my back, an' off
+          to camp; werry slow an' patient, fur he were sore
+          wownded, an' the life in him wery low.
+
+          "Wall, young genl'men, I'll not weary you wi' the
+          long hours as dragged by afore mornin'. I med him
+          as snug as I could, and at daybreak we hed him
+          took to the sugeon's tent.
+
+          "I wor on guard all that mornin' an' could not get
+          to my lad; but at last the relief kim roun', an'
+          the man as was to take my place says, says he,
+          'Jerry, my mate, ef I was you I'd go right to the
+          hosp'tl an' stay by poor Bill' (fur they all knew
+          as I sot gret store by him); 'He is werry wild in
+          his head, I hearn, an' the sugeon says as how he
+          can't last long.'
+
+          "Ye may b'lieve how my hairt jumped wen I hearn
+          that. I laid down my gun, an' ran fur the wooden
+          shed, which were all the place they hed fur them
+          as was wownded. An' thar wor Bill--my mate
+          Bill--laying on a blanket spred on the floore, wi'
+          his clothes all on (fur it's a hard bed, an' his
+          own bloody uniform, that a sojer must die in), wi'
+          the corpse o' another poor fellow as had died all
+          alone in the night a'most touching him, an'
+          slopped wi' blood. I moved it fur away all in a
+          trimble o' sorrer, an' kivered it decent like, so
+          as Bill mightn't see it an' get downhearted fur
+          hisself. Then I went an' sot down aside my mate.
+          He didn't know me, no more nor if I wor a
+          stranger; but kept throwin' his arms about, an'
+          moanin' out continual, 'Oh mother! mother! Why
+          don't you come to your boy?'
+
+          "I bust right out crying, I do own, wen I hearn
+          that, an' takin' his han' in mine, I tried to
+          quiet him down a bit; telling him it wor bad fur
+          his wownd to be so res'less (fur every time he
+          tossed, thar kim a little leap o' blood from his
+          breast); an' at last, about foore o'clock in the
+          day, he opened his eyes quite sensible like, an'
+          says to me, he says, 'Dear matey, is that you?
+          Thank you fur coming to see me afore I die.'
+
+          "'No, Bill, don't talk so,' I says, a strivin' to
+          be cheerful like, tho' I seed death in his face,
+          'You'll be well afore long.'
+
+          "'Aye, well in heaven,' he says; and then, arter a
+          minnit, 'Jerry,' he says, 'thar's a little bounty
+          money as belongs to me in my knapsack, an' my
+          month's wages. I want you, wen I am gone, to take
+          it to my mother, an' tell her--'(he wor gaspin'
+          fearful)--'as I died--fightin' fur my country--an'
+          the flag. God bless you, Jerry--you hev been a
+          good frien' to me, an' I knows as you'll do
+          this--an' bid the boys good-by--fur me.'
+
+          "I promised, wi' the tears streamin' down my
+          cheeks; an' then we wor quiet a bit, fur it hurt
+          Bill's breast to talk, an' I could not say a wured
+          fur the choke in my throat. Arter a while he says,
+          'Jerry, won't you sing me the hymn as I taught you
+          aboard the transport? about the Lord our Captin?'
+
+          "I could hardly find v'ice to begin, but it wor
+          Bill's dying wish, an' I made shift to sing as
+          well as I could--
+
+          "'We air marchin' on together
+              To our etarnal rest;
+           Niver askin' why we're ordered--
+             For the Lord He knoweth best.
+           Christ is our Captain!
+             'Forred!' is His word;
+           Ranks all steady, muskets ready,
+             In the army o' the Lord!
+
+          "'Satan's hosts are all aroun' us,
+             An' strive to enter in;
+           But our outworks they are stronger
+             Nor the dark brigades o' sin!
+           Christ is our Fortress!
+             Righteousness our sword;
+           Truth the standard--in the vanguard--
+             O' the army o' the Lord!
+
+          "'Comrads, we air ever fightin'
+             A battle fur the right;
+           Ever on the on'ard movement
+             Fur our home o' peace an' light.
+           Christ is our Leader!
+             Heaven our reward,
+          Comin' nearer, shinin' clearer--
+             In the army o' the Lord!'
+
+          "Arter I hed sung the hymn--an' it wor all I could
+          do to get through--Bill seemed to be a sight
+          easier. He lay still, smilin' like a child on the
+          mother's breast. Pretty soon arter, the Major kim
+          in; an' wen he seed Bill lookin' so peaceful, he
+          says, says he, 'Why, cheer up, my lad! the sugeon
+          sayd as how you wor in a bad way; but you look
+          finely now;'--fur he didn't know it wor the death
+          look coming over him. 'You'll be about soon,'
+          says the Major, 'an' fightin' fur the flag as
+          brave as ever,'
+
+          "Bill didn't say nothing--he seemed to be getting
+          wild agin;--an' looked stupid like at our Major
+          till he hearn the wureds about the flag. Then he
+          caught his breath suddint like, an', afore we
+          could stop him, he had sprang to his feet--shakin'
+          to an' fro like a reed--but as straight as he ever
+          wor on parade; an', his v'ice all hoarse an' full
+          o' death, an' his arm in the air, he shouted,
+          'Aye! God--bless--the--flag! we'll fight fur it
+          till--' an' then we hearn a sort o' snap, an' he
+          fell forred--dead!
+
+          "We buried him that night, I an' my mates. I cut
+          off a lock o' his hair fur his poor mother, afore
+          we put the airth over him; an' giv it to her, wi'
+          poor Bill's money, faithful an' true, wen we kim
+          home. I've lived to be an old man since then, an'
+          see the Major go afore me, as I hoped to sarve
+          till my dyin' day; but Lord willing I shel go
+          next, to win the Salwation as I've fitten for, by
+          Bill's side, a sojer in Christ's army, in the
+          Etarnal Jerusalem!"
+
+The boys took a long breath when Jerry had finished his story, and more
+than one bright eye was filled with tears. The rough words, and plain,
+unpolished manner of the old soldier, only heightened the impression
+made by his story; and as he rose to go away, evidently much moved by
+the painful recollections it excited, there was a hearty, "Thank you,
+sergeant, for your story--it was real good!" Jerry only touched his cap
+to the young soldiers, and marched off hastily, while the boys looked
+after him in respectful silence. But young spirits soon recover from
+gloomy influences, and in a few moments they were all chattering merrily
+again.
+
+"What a pity we must go home Monday!" cried Louie; "I wish we could camp
+out forever! Oh, Freddy, do write a letter to General McClellan, and ask
+him to let us join the army right away! Tell him we'll buy some new
+india-rubber back-bones and stretch ourselves out big directly, if he'll
+only send right on for us!"
+
+"Perhaps he would, if he knew how jolly we can drill already!" said
+Peter, laughing. "I tell you what, boys, the very thing! let's have a
+review before we go home. I'll ask all the boys and girls I know to come
+and look on, and we might have quite a grand entertainment. Won't that
+be splendid? We can march about all over, and fire off the cannons and
+everything! I'm sure father will let us."
+
+"Yes, but how's General McClellan to hear anything about it?" inquired
+practical Louie.
+
+"Why--I don't know," said Peter, rather taken aback by this view of the
+subject. "Well, somehow--never mind, it will be grand fun, and I mean
+to ask my father right away."
+
+"Take me with you?" called a dozen fellows directly. Finally it was
+concluded that it might make more impression on Mr. Schermerhorn's mind,
+if the application came from the regiment in a body; so, running for
+their swords and guns, officers and men found their places in the
+battalion, and the grand procession started on its way--chattering all
+the time, in utter defiance of that "article of war" which forbids
+"talking in the ranks." Just as they were passing the lake, they heard
+carriage wheels crunching on the gravel, and drew up in a long line on
+the other side of the road to let the vehicle pass them; much to the
+astonishment of two pretty young ladies and a sweet little girl, about
+Freddy's age, who were leaning comfortably back in the handsome
+barouche.
+
+"Why, Peter!" exclaimed one of the ladies, "what in the world is all
+this?"
+
+"This!" cried Peter, running up to the carriage, "why, these are the
+Dashahed Zouaves, Miss Carlton. We have been in camp ever since Monday.
+Good morning, Miss Jessie," to the little girl on the front seat, who
+was looking on with deep interest.
+
+"Oh, to be sure, I remember," said Miss Carlton, laughing; "come,
+introduce the Zouaves, Peter; we are wild to know them!"
+
+The boys clustered eagerly about the carriage and a lively chat took
+place. The Zouaves, some blushing and bashful, others frank and
+confident, and all desperately in love already with pretty little
+Jessie, related in high glee their adventures--except the celebrated
+court martial--and enlarged glowingly upon the all-important subject of
+the grand review.
+
+Colonel Freddy, of course, played a prominent part in all this, and with
+his handsome face, bright eyes, and frank, gentlemanly ways, needed only
+those poor lost curls to be a perfect picture of a soldier. He chattered
+away with Miss Lucy, the second sister, and obtained her special promise
+that she would plead their cause with Mr. Schermerhorn in case the
+united petitions of the corps should fail. The young ladies did not know
+of Mrs. Schermerhorn's departure, but Freddy and Peter together coaxed
+them to come up to the house "anyhow." The carriage was accordingly
+taken into the procession, and followed it meekly to the house; the
+Zouaves insisting on being escort, much to the terror of the young
+ladies; who were in constant apprehension that the rear rank and the
+horses might come to kicks--not to say blows--and the embarrassment of
+the coachman; who, as they were constantly stopping unexpectedly to turn
+round and talk, didn't know "where to have them," as the saying is.
+However, they reached their destination in safety before long, and
+found Mr. Schermerhorn seated on the piazza. He hastened forward to meet
+them, with the cordial greeting of an old friend.
+
+"Well, old bachelor," said Miss Carlton, gayly, as the young ladies
+ascended the steps, "you see we have come to visit you in state, with
+the military escort befitting patriotic young ladies who have four
+brothers on the Potomac. What has become of Madame, please?"
+
+"Gone to Niagara and left me a 'lone lorn creetur;'" said Mr.
+Schermerhorn, laughing. "Basely deserted me when my farming couldn't be
+left. But how am I to account for the presence of the military,
+mademoiselle?"
+
+"Really, I beg their pardons," exclaimed Miss Carlton. "They have come
+on a special deputation to you, Mr. Schermerhorn, so pray don't let us
+interrupt business."
+
+Thus apostrophised, the boys scampered eagerly up the steps; and Freddy,
+a little bashful, but looking as bright as a button, delivered the
+following brief oration: "Mr. Schermerhorn: I want--that is, the boys
+want--I mean we all want--to have a grand review on Saturday, and ask
+our friends to look on. Will you let us do it, please?"
+
+"Certainly, with the greatest pleasure!" replied Mr. Schermerhorn,
+smiling; "but what will become of you good people when I tell you that
+I have just received a letter from Mrs. Schermerhorn, asking me to join
+her this week instead of next, and bring Peter with me."
+
+"Oh! father, please let me stay!" interrupted Peter; "can't you tell ma
+I've joined the army for the war? We all want to stay like everything!"
+
+"And forage for yourselves?" said his father, laughing. "No, the army
+must give you up, and lose a valuable member, Master Peter; but just
+have the goodness to listen a moment. The review shall take place, but
+as the camp will have to break up on Saturday instead of Monday, as I
+had intended, the performances must come off to-morrow. Does that suit
+your ideas?"
+
+The boys gave a delighted consent to this arrangement, and now the only
+thing which dampened their enjoyment was the prospect of such a speedy
+end being put to their camp life. "Confound it! what was the fun for a
+fellow to be poked into a stupid watering place, where he must bother to
+keep his hair parted down the middle, and a clean collar stiff enough to
+choke him on from morning till night?" as Tom indignantly remarked to
+George and Will the same evening. "The fact is, this sort of thing is
+_the_ thing for a _man_ after all!" an opinion in which the other _men_
+fully concurred.
+
+But let us return to the piazza, where we have left the party. After a
+few moments more spent in chatting with Mr. Schermerhorn, it was decided
+to accept Colonel Freddy's polite invitation, which he gave with such a
+bright little bow, to inspect the camp. You may be sure it was in
+apple-pie order, for Jerry, who had taken the Zouaves under his special
+charge, insisted on their keeping it in such a state of neatness as only
+a soldier ever achieved. The party made an extremely picturesque
+group--the gay uniforms of the Zouaves, and light summer dresses of the
+ladies, charmingly relieved against the background of trees; while Mr.
+Schermerhorn's stately six feet, and somewhat portly proportions, quite
+reminded one of General Scott; especially among such a small army; in
+which George alone quite came up to the regulation "63 inches."
+
+Little Jessie ran hither and thither, surrounded by a crowd of adorers,
+who would have given their brightest buttons, every "man" of them, to be
+the most entertaining fellow of the corps. They showed her the battery
+and the stacks of shining guns--made to stand up by Jerry in a wonderful
+fashion that the boys never could hope to attain--the inside of all the
+tents, and the smoke guard house (Tom couldn't help a blush as he looked
+in); and finally, as a parting compliment (which, let me tell you, is
+the greatest, in a boy's estimation, that can possibly be paid), Freddy
+made her a present of his very largest and most gorgeous "glass agates;"
+one of which was all the colors of the rainbow, and the other
+patriotically adorned with the Stars and Stripes in enamel. Peter
+climbed to the top of the tallest cherry tree, and brought her down a
+bough at least a yard and a half long, crammed with "ox hearts;" Harry
+eagerly offered to make any number of "stunning baskets" out of the
+stones, and in short there never was such a belle seen before.
+
+"Oh, a'int she jolly!" was the ruling opinion among the Zouaves. A
+private remark was also circulated to the effect that "Miss Jessie was
+stunningly pretty."
+
+The young ladies at last said good-by to the camp; promising faithfully
+to send all the visitors they could to the grand review, and drove off
+highly entertained with their visit. Mr. Schermerhorn decided to take
+the afternoon boat for the city and return early Friday morning, and the
+boys, left to themselves, began to think of dinner, as it was two
+o'clock. A brisk discussion was kept up all dinner time you may be sure,
+concerning the event to come off on the morrow.
+
+"I should like to know, for my part, what we do in a review," said
+Jimmy, balancing his fork artistically on the end of his finger, and
+looking solemnly round the table.
+
+"Why, show off everything we know!" said Charley Spicer. "March about,
+and form into ranks and columns, and all that first, then do charming
+"parade rest," "'der humps!" and the rest of it; and finish off by
+firing off our guns, and showing how we can't hit anything by any
+possibility!"
+
+"But these guns won't fire off!" objected Jimmy.
+
+"Well, the cannon then!"
+
+"But I'm sure father won't let us have any powder," said Peter
+disconsolately. "You can't think how I burnt the end of my nose last
+Fourth with powder! It was so sore I couldn't blow it for a week!"
+
+The boys all burst out laughing at this dreadful disaster, and George
+said, "You weren't lighting it with the end of your nose, were you?"
+
+"No; but I was stooping over, charging one of my cannon, and I dropped
+the 'punk' right in the muzzle somehow, and, would you believe it, the
+nasty thing went off and burnt my nose! and father said I shouldn't play
+with powder any more, because I might have put out my eyes."
+
+"Well, we must take it out in marching, then," said Freddy, with a
+tremendous sigh.
+
+"No, hold on; I'll tell you what we can do!" cried Tom, eagerly. "I have
+some 'double headers' left from the Fourth; we might fire them out of
+the cannon; they make noise enough, I'm sure. I'll write to my mother
+this afternoon and get them."
+
+The boys couldn't help being struck with the generosity of this offer,
+coming from Tom after their late rather unkind treatment of him; and the
+older ones especially were very particular to thank him for his present.
+As soon as dinner was over, he started for the house to ask Mr.
+Schermerhorn to carry his message. As he hurried along the road, his
+bright black eyes sparkling with the happiness of doing a good action,
+he heard trotting steps behind him, felt an arm stealing round his neck,
+schoolboy fashion, and there was Freddy.
+
+"I ran after you all the way," he pantingly said. "I want to tell you,
+dear Tom, how much we are obliged to you for giving us your crackers,
+and how sorry we are that we acted so rudely to you the other day.
+Please forgive us; we all like you so much, and we would feel as mean as
+anything to take your present without begging pardon. George, Peter, and
+I feel truly ashamed of ourselves every time we think of that abominable
+court martial."
+
+"There, old fellow, don't say a word more about it!" was the hearty
+response; and Tom threw his arm affectionately about his companion. "It
+was my fault, Freddy, and all because I was mad at poor old Jerry; how
+silly! I was sorry for what I said right afterward."
+
+"Then we are friends again?" cried Freddy, joyfully.
+
+"Yes; I'll like you as long as I live! and ever so much longer." And so
+we will leave the two on their walk to the house, and close this
+abominably long chapter.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+A GRAND REVIEW.
+
+
+THERE are really scarcely words enough in the dictionary properly to
+describe the immense amount of drill got through with by the Dashahed
+Zouaves between three o'clock that afternoon and twelve, noon, of the
+following day. This Friday afternoon was going to be memorable in
+history for one of the most splendid reviews on record. They almost ran
+poor old Jerry off his legs in their eagerness to go over every possible
+variety of exercise known to "Hardee's Tactics," and nearly dislocated
+their shoulder blades trying to waggle their elbows backward and forward
+all at once when they went at "double quick;" at the same time keeping
+the other arm immovably pinioned to their sides. Then that wonderful
+operation of stacking the rebellious guns, which obstinately clattered
+down nine times and a half out of ten, had to be gone through with, and
+a special understanding promulgated in the corps as to when Jerry's
+"'der arms!" meant "shoulder arms," and when "order arms" (or bringing
+all the muskets down together with a bang); and, in short, there never
+was such a busy time seen in camp before.
+
+Friday morning dawned, if possible, still more splendidly than any of
+the preceding days, with a cool, refreshing breeze, just enough snowy
+clouds in the sky to keep off the fiery summer heat in a measure, and
+not a headache nor a heartache among the Zouaves to mar the pleasure of
+the day. The review was to come off at four o'clock, when the July sun
+would be somewhat diminished in warmth, and from some hints that Jerry
+let fall, Mrs. Lockitt, and the fat cook, Mrs. Mincemeat, were holding
+high council up at the house, over a certain collation to be partaken of
+at the end of the entertainments.
+
+As the day wore on the excitement of our friends the Zouaves increased.
+They could hardly either eat their dinners, or sit down for more than a
+moment at a time; and when, about three o'clock, Mr. Schermerhorn
+entered the busy little camp, he was surrounded directly with a crowd of
+eager questioners, all talking at once, and making as much noise as a
+colony of rooks.
+
+"Patience, patience, my good friends!" laughed Mr. Schermerhorn, holding
+up a finger for silence. "Every one in turn. Tom, here are your 'double
+headers,' with love from your mother. Fred, I saw your father to-day,
+and they are all coming down to the review. George, here is a note left
+for you in my box at the Post Office, and Dashahed Zouaves in
+general--I have one piece of advice to give you. Get dressed quietly,
+and then sit down and rest yourselves. You will be tired out by the end
+of the afternoon, at all events; so don't frisk about more than you can
+help at present;" and Mr. Schermerhorn left the camp; while the boys,
+under strong pressure of Jerry, and the distant notes of a band which
+suddenly began to make itself heard, dressed themselves as nicely as
+they could, and sat down with heroic determination to wait for four
+o'clock.
+
+Presently, carriages began to crunch over the gravel road one after
+another, filled with merry children, and not a few grown people besides.
+Mr. and Mrs. Jourdain, with Bella, were among the first to arrive; and
+soon after the Carltons' barouche drove up. Jessie, for some unknown
+reason, was full of half nervous glee, and broke into innumerable little
+trilling laughs when any one spoke to her. A sheet of lilac note paper,
+folded up tight, which she held in her hand, seemed to have something to
+do with it, and her soft brown curls and spreading muslin skirts were in
+equal danger of irremediable "mussing," as she fidgetted about on the
+carriage seat, fully as restless as any of the Zouaves.
+
+Mr. Schermerhorn received his guests on the piazza, where all the chairs
+in the house, one would think, were placed for the company, as the best
+view of the lawn was from this point. To the extreme right were the
+white tents of the camp, half hidden by the immense trunk of a
+magnificent elm, the only tree that broke the smooth expanse of the
+lawn. On the left a thick hawthorne hedge separated the ornamental
+grounds from the cultivated fields of the place, while in front the view
+was bounded by the blue and sparkling waters of the Sound.
+
+Soon four o'clock struck; and, punctual to the moment, the Zouaves could
+be seen in the distance, forming their ranks. Jerry, in his newest suit
+of regimentals, bustled about here and there, and presently his voice
+was heard shouting, "Are ye all ready now? SQUAD, 'SHUN! HARCH!" and to
+the melodious notes of "Dixie," performed by the band, which was
+stationed nearer the house, the regiment started up the lawn! Jerry
+marching up beside them, and occasionally uttering such mysterious
+mandates as, "Easy in the centre! keep your fours in the wheel! _Steady_
+now!"
+
+Oh, what a burst of delighted applause greeted them as they neared the
+house! The boys hurrahed, the girls clapped their hands, ladies and
+gentlemen waved their hats and handkerchiefs; while the Dashahed
+Zouaves, too soldierly _now_ to grin, drew up in a long line, and stood
+like statues, without so much as winking.
+
+And now the music died away, and everybody was as still as a mouse,
+while Jerry advanced to the front, and issued the preliminary order:
+
+"To the rear--open order!" and the rear rank straightway fell back;
+executing, in fact, that wonderful "tekkinapesstoth'rare" which had
+puzzled them so much on the first day of their drilling. Then came those
+other wonderful orders:
+
+          "P'_sent_ humps!
+          "_Der_ humps!
+          "Gr'_nd_ humps!"
+
+And so on, at which the muskets flew backward and forward, up and down,
+with such wonderful precision. The spectators were delighted beyond
+measure; an enthusiastic young gentleman, with about three hairs on
+each side of his mustache, who belonged to the Twenty-second Regiment,
+declared "It was the best drill he had seen out of his company room!" a
+celebrated artist, whose name I dare not tell for the world, sharpened
+his pencil, and broke the point off three times in his hurry, and at
+last produced the beautiful sketch which appears at the front of this
+volume; while all the little boys who were looking on, felt as if they
+would give every one of their new boots and glass agates to belong to
+the gallant Dashahed Zouaves.
+
+[Illustration: "DOUBLE-QUICK."]
+
+After the guns had been put in every possible variety of position, the
+regiment went through their marching. They broke into companies,
+formed the line again, divided in two equal parts, called "breaking into
+platoons," showed how to "wheel on the right flank," and all manner of
+other mysteries.
+
+Finally, they returned to their companies, and on Jerry's giving the
+order, they started at "double quick" (which is the most comical
+tritty-trot movement you can think of), dashed down the slope of the
+lawn, round the great elm, up hill again full speed, and in a moment
+more were drawn up in unbroken lines before the house, and standing once
+again like so many statues.
+
+It was really splendid! Round after round of applause greeted the
+Zouaves, who kept their positions for a moment, then snatching off
+their saucy little fez caps, they gave the company three cheers in
+return, of the most tremendous description; which quite took away the
+little remaining breath they had after the "double quick."
+
+Thus ended the first part of the review; and now, with the assistance of
+their rather Lilliputian battery, and Tom's double headers, they went
+through some firing quite loud enough to make the little girls start and
+jump uncomfortably; so this part of the entertainment was brought to
+rather a sudden conclusion. Jerry had just issued the order, "Close up
+in ranks to dismiss," when Mr. Schermerhorn, who, with Miss Carlton and
+Jessie, had left the piazza a few minutes before, came forward, saying,
+"Have the goodness to wait a moment, Colonel; there is one more ceremony
+to go through with."
+
+The boys looked at each other in silent curiosity, wondering what could
+be coming; when, all at once, the chairs on the piazza huddled back in a
+great hurry, to make a lane for a beautiful little figure, which came
+tripping from the open door.
+
+It was Jessie; but a great change had been made in her appearance. Over
+her snowy muslin skirts she had a short classic tunic of red, white, and
+blue silk; a wreath of red and white roses and bright blue jonquils
+encircled her curls, and in her hand she carried a superb banner. It
+was made of dark blue silk, trimmed with gold fringe; on one side was
+painted an American eagle, and on the other the words "Dashahed
+Zouaves," surrounded with a blaze of glory and gold stars. She advanced
+to the edge of the piazza, and in a clear, sweet voice, a little
+tremulous, but very distinct, she said:
+
+          "COLONEL AND BRAVE SOLDIERS:
+
+          "I congratulate you, in the name of our friends,
+          on the success you have achieved. You have shown
+          us to-day what Young America can do; and as a
+          testimonial of our high admiration, I present you
+          the colors of your regiment!
+
+          "Take them, as the assurance that our hearts are
+          with you; bear them as the symbol of the Cause you
+          have enlisted under; and should you fall beneath
+          them on the field of battle, I bid you lay down
+          your lives cheerfully for the flag of your
+          country, and breathe with your last sigh the name
+          of the Union! Colonel, take your colors!"
+
+Freddy's cheeks grew crimson, and the great tears swelled to his eyes as
+he advanced to take the flag which Jessie held toward him. And now our
+little Colonel came out bright, sure enough. Perhaps not another member
+of the regiment, called upon to make a speech in this way, could have
+thought of a word to reply; but Freddy's quick wit supplied him with
+the right ideas; and it was with a proud, happy face, and clear voice
+that he responded:
+
+          "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
+
+          "I thank you, in the name of my regiment, for the
+          honor you have done us. Inspired by your praises,
+          proud to belong to the army of the Republic, we
+          hope to go on as we have begun. To your kindness
+          we owe the distinguishing colors under which we
+          march hereafter; and by the Union for which we
+          fight, they shall never float over a retreating
+          battalion!"
+
+Oh! the cheers and clapping of hands which followed this little speech!
+Everybody was looking at Freddy as he stood there, the colors in his
+hand, and the bright flush on his cheek, with the greatest admiration.
+Of course, his parents weren't proud of him; certainly not!
+
+But the wonders were not at an end yet; for suddenly the band began
+playing a new air, and to this accompaniment, the sweet voice of some
+lady unseen, but which sounded to those who knew, wonderfully like Miss
+Lucy Carlton's, sang the following patriotic ballad:
+
+          "We will stand by our Flag--let it lead where it will--
+          Our hearts and our hopes fondly cling to it still;
+          Through battle and danger our Cause must be won--
+          Yet forward! undaunted we'll follow it on!
+          'Tis the Flag! the old Flag! still unsullied and bright,
+          As when first its fair stars lit oppression's dark night
+          And the standard that guides us forever shall be
+          The Star-spangled Banner, the Flag of the Free!
+
+          "A handful of living--an army of dead,
+          The last charge been made and the last prayer been said;
+          What is it--as sad we retreat from the plain
+          That cheers us, and nerves us to rally again?
+          'Tis the Flag! the old Flag! to our country God-given,
+          That gleams through our ranks like a glory from heaven!
+          And the foe, as they fly, in our vanguard shall see
+          The Star-spangled Banner, the Flag of the Free!
+
+          "We will fight for the Flag, by the love that we bear
+          In the Union and Freedom, we'll baffle despair;
+          Trust on in our country, strike home for the right,
+          And Treason shall vanish like mists of the night.
+          Then cheer the old Flag! every star in it glows,
+          The terror of traitors! the curse of our foes!
+          And the victory that crowns us shall glorified be,
+          'Neath the Star-spangled Banner, the Flag of the Free!"
+
+As the song ended, there was another tumult of applause; and then the
+band struck up a lively quickstep, and the company, with the Zouaves
+marching ahead, poured out on the lawn toward the camp, where a
+bountiful collation was awaiting them, spread on the regimental table.
+Two splendid pyramids of flowers ornamented the centre, and all manner
+of "goodies," as the children call them, occupied every inch of space on
+the sides. At the head of the table Jerry had contrived a canopy from a
+large flag, and underneath this, Miss Jessie, Colonel Freddy, with the
+other officers, and some favored young ladies of their own age, took
+their seats. The other children found places around the table, and a
+merrier féte champêtre never was seen. The band continued to play lively
+airs from time to time, and I really can give you my word as an author,
+that nobody looked cross for a single minute!
+
+Between you and me, little reader, there had been a secret arrangement
+among the grown folks interested in the regiment, to get all this up in
+such fine style. Every one had contributed something to give the Zouaves
+their flag and music, while to Mr. Schermerhorn it fell to supply the
+supper; and arrangements had been made and invitations issued since the
+beginning of the week. The regiment, certainly, had the credit, however,
+of getting up the review, it only having been the idea of their good
+friends to have the entertainment and flag presentation. So there was a
+pleasant surprise on both sides; and each party in the transaction, was
+quite as much astonished and delighted as the other could wish.
+
+The long sunset shadows were rapidly stealing over the velvet sward as
+the company rose from table, adding a new charm to the beauty of the
+scene. Everywhere the grass was dotted with groups of elegant ladies and
+gentlemen, and merry children, in light summer dresses and quaintly
+pretty uniforms. The little camp, with the stacks of guns down its
+centre, the bayonets flashing in the last rays of the sun, was all
+crowded and brilliant with happy people; looking into the tents and
+admiring their exquisite order, inspecting the bright muskets, and
+listening eagerly or good-humoredly, as they happened to be children or
+grown people, to the explanations and comments of the Zouaves.
+
+And on the little grassy knoll, where the flag staff was planted,
+central figure of the scene, stood Colonel Freddy, silent and thoughtful
+for the first time to-day, with Jerry beside him. The old man had
+scarcely left his side since the boy took the flag; he would permit no
+one else to wait upon him at table, and his eyes followed him as he
+moved among the gay crowd, with a glance of the utmost pride and
+affection. The old volunteer seemed to feel that the heart of a soldier
+beat beneath the little dandy ruffled shirt and gold-laced jacket of the
+young Colonel. Suddenly, the boy snatches up again the regimental
+colors; the Stars and Stripes, and little Jessie's flag, and shakes
+them out to the evening breeze; and as they flash into view and once
+more the cheers of the Zouaves greet their colors, he says, with
+quivering lip and flashing eye, "Jerry, if God spares me to be a man,
+I'll live and die a soldier!"
+
+The soft evening light was deepening into night, and the beautiful
+planet Venus rising in the west, when the visitors bade adieu to the
+camp; the Zouaves were shaken hands with until their wrists fairly
+ached; and then they all shook hands with "dear" Jessie, as Charley was
+heard to call her before the end of the day, and heard her say in her
+soft little voice how sorry she was they must go to-morrow (though she
+certainly couldn't have been sorrier than _they_ were), and then the
+good people all got into their carriages again, and drove off; waving
+their handkerchiefs for good-by as long as the camp could be seen; and
+so, with the sound of the last wheels dying away in the distance, ended
+the very end of
+
+                                THE GRAND REVIEW.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.--AND LAST.
+
+"HOME, SWEET HOME."
+
+
+AND now, at last, had come that "day of disaster," when Camp McClellan
+must be deserted. The very sun didn't shine so brilliantly as usual,
+thought the Zouaves; and it was positively certain that the past five
+days, although they had occurred in the middle of summer, were the very
+shortest ever known! Eleven o'clock was the hour appointed for the
+breaking up of the camp, in order that they might return to the city by
+the early afternoon boat.
+
+"Is it possible we have been here a week?" exclaimed Jimmy, as he sat
+down to breakfast. "It seems as if we had only come yesterday."
+
+"What a jolly time it has been!" chimed in Charley Spicer. "I don't want
+to go to Newport a bit. Where are you going, Tom?"
+
+"To Baltimore--but I don't mean to Secesh!" added Tom, with a little
+blush. "I have a cousin in the Palmetto Guards at Charleston, and that's
+one too many rebels in the family."
+
+"Never mind!" cried George Chadwick; "the Pringles are a first rate
+family; the rest of you are loyal enough, I'm sure!" and George gave
+Tom such a slap on the back, in token of his good will, that it quite
+brought the tears into his eyes.
+
+When breakfast was over, the Zouaves repaired to their tents, and
+proceeded to pack their clothes away out of the lockers. They were not
+very scientific packers, and, in fact, the usual mode of doing the
+business was to ram everything higgledy-piggledy into their valises, and
+then jump on them until they consented to come together and be locked.
+Presently Jerry came trotting down with a donkey cart used on the farm,
+and under his directions the boys folded their blankets neatly up, and
+placed them in the vehicle, which then drove off with its load, leaving
+them to get out and pile together the other furnishings of the tents;
+for, of course, as soldiers, they were expected to wind up their own
+affairs, and we all know that boys will do considerable _hard work_ when
+it comes in the form of _play_. Just as the cart, with its vicious
+little wrong-headed steed, had tugged, and jerked, and worried itself
+out of sight, a light basket carriage, drawn by two dashing black
+Canadian ponies, drew up opposite the camp, and the reins were let fall
+by a young lady in a saucy "pork pie" straw hat, who was driving--no
+other than Miss Carlton, with Jessie beside her. The boys eagerly
+surrounded the little carriage, and Miss Carlton said, laughing, "Jessie
+begged so hard for a last look at the camp, that I had to bring her. So
+you are really going away?"
+
+"Really," repeated Freddy; "but I am so glad you came, Miss Jessie, just
+in time to see us off."
+
+"You know soldiers take themselves away houses and all," said George;
+"you will see the tents come down with a run presently."
+
+"And here comes Jerry to help us!" added Harry. As he spoke, the donkey
+cart rattled up, and Jerry, touching his cap to the ladies, got out, and
+prepared to superintend the downfall of the tents. By his directions,
+two of the Zouaves went to each tent, and pulled the stakes first from
+one corner, then the other; then they grasped firmly the pole which
+supported the centre, and when the sergeant ejaculated "Now!" like a
+flash! the tents slid smoothly to the ground all at the same moment,
+just as you may have made a row of blocks fall down by upsetting the
+first one.
+
+And now came the last ceremony, the hauling down of the flag.
+
+"Stand by to fire a salute!" shouted Jerry, and instantly a company was
+detached, who brought the six little cannon under the flagstaff, and
+charged them with the last of the double headers, saved for this
+purpose; Freddy stood close to the flagstaff, with the halyards ready in
+his hands. Crack! fizz! went six matches for the cannon. "Make ready!
+apply light, FIRE!"
+
+BANG! and the folds of the flag stream out proudly in the breeze, as it
+rapidly descends the halyards, and flutters softly to the greensward.
+
+There was perfectly dead silence for a moment; then the voice of Mr.
+Schermerhorn was heard calling, "Come, boys, are you ready? Jump in,
+then, it is time to start for the boat." The boys turned and saw the
+carriages which had brought them so merrily to the camp waiting to
+convey them once more to the wharf; while a man belonging to the farm
+was rapidly piling the regimental luggage into a wagon.
+
+With sorrowful faces the Zouaves clustered around the pretty pony
+chaise; shaking hands once more with Jessie, and internally vowing to
+adore her as long as they lived. Then they got into the carriages, and
+old Jerry grasped Freddy's hand with an affectionate "Good-by, my little
+Colonel, God bless ye! Old Jerry won't never forget your noble face as
+long as he lives." It would have seemed like insulting the old man to
+offer him money in return for his loving admiration, but the handsome
+gilt-edged Bible that found its way to him soon after the departure of
+the regiment, was inscribed with the irregular schoolboy signature of
+"Freddy Jourdain, with love to his old friend Jeremiah Pike."
+
+As for the regimental standards, they were found to be rather beyond
+the capacity of a rockaway crammed full of Zouaves, so Tom insisted on
+riding on top of the baggage, that he might have the pleasure of
+carrying them all the way. Up he mounted, as brisk as a lamplighter,
+with that monkey, Peter, after him, the flags were handed up, and with
+three ringing cheers, the vehicles started at a rapid trot, and the
+regiment was fairly off. They almost broke their necks leaning back to
+see the last of "dear Jessie," until the locusts hid them from sight,
+when they relapsed into somewhat dismal silence for full five minutes.
+
+As Peter was going on to Niagara with his father, Mr. Schermerhorn
+accompanied the regiment to the city, which looked dustier and red
+brickier (what a word!) than ever, now that they were fresh from the
+lovely green of the country. By Mr. Schermerhorn's advice, the party
+took possession of two empty Fifth avenue stages which happened to be
+waiting at the Fulton ferry, and rode slowly up Broadway to Chambers
+street, where Peter and his father bid them good-by, and went off to the
+dépôt. As Peter had declined changing his clothes before he left, they
+had to travel all the way to Buffalo with our young friend in this
+unusual guise; but, as people had become used to seeing soldiers
+parading about in uniform, they didn't seem particularly surprised,
+whereat Master Peter was rather disappointed.
+
+To go back to the Zouaves, however. When the stages turned into Fifth
+avenue, they decided to get out; and after forming their ranks in fine
+style, they marched up the avenue, on the sidewalk this time, stopping
+at the various houses or street corners where they must bid adieu to one
+and another of their number, promising to see each other again as soon
+as possible.
+
+At last only Tom and Freddy were left to go home by themselves. As they
+marched along, keeping faultless step, Freddy exclaimed, "I tell you
+what, Tom! I mean to ask my father, the minute he comes home, to let me
+go to West Point as soon as I leave school! I must be a soldier--I
+can't think of anything else!"
+
+"That's just what I mean to do!" cried Tom, with sparkling eyes; "and,
+Fred, if you get promoted before me, promise you will have me in your
+regiment, won't you?"
+
+"Yes I will, certainly!" answered Freddy; "but you're the oldest, Tom,
+and, you know, the oldest gets promoted first; so mind you don't forget
+me when you come to your command!"
+
+As he spoke, they reached his own home; and our hero, glad after all to
+come back to father, mother, and sister, bounded up the steps, and rang
+the bell good and _hard_, just to let Joseph know that a personage of
+eminence had arrived. As the door opened, he turned gayly round, cap in
+hand, saying, "Good-by, Maryland; you've left the regiment, but you'll
+never leave the Union!" and the last words he heard Tom say were, "No,
+by George, _never_!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+And now, dear little readers, my boy friends in particular, the history
+of Freddy Jourdain must close. He still lives in New York, and attends
+Dr. Larned's school, where he is at the head of all his classes.
+
+The Dashahed Zouaves have met very often since the encampment, and had
+many a good drill in their room--the large attic floor which Mr.
+Jourdain allowed them for their special accommodation, and where the
+beautiful regimental colors are carefully kept, to be proudly displayed
+in every parade of the Zouaves.
+
+When he is sixteen, the boy Colonel is to enter West Point Academy, and
+learn to be a real soldier; while Tom--poor Tom, who went down to
+Baltimore that pleasant July month, promising so faithfully to join
+Freddy in the cadet corps, may never see the North again.
+
+And in conclusion let me say, that should our country again be in danger
+in after years, which God forbid, we may be sure that first in the
+field, and foremost in the van of the grand army, will be our gallant
+young friend,
+
+                                 COLONEL FREDDY.
+
+
+
+
+CONCLUSION.
+
+
+IT took a great many Saturday afternoons to finish the story of "Colonel
+Freddy," and the children returned to it at each reading with renewed
+and breathless interest. George and Helen couldn't help jumping up off
+their seats once or twice and clapping their hands with delight when
+anything specially exciting took place in the pages of the wonderful
+story that was seen "before it was printed," and a great many "oh's" and
+"ah's" testified to their appreciation of the gallant "Dashahed
+Zouaves." They laughed over the captive Tom, and cried over the true
+story of the old sergeant; and when at length the very last word had
+been read, and their mother had laid down the manuscript, George sprang
+up once more, exclaiming; "Oh, I wish I could be a boy soldier! Mamma,
+mayn't I recruit a regiment and camp out too?" "And oh! if I could only
+present a flag!" cried his sister; "I wish I had been Jessie; what a
+pity it wasn't all true!"
+
+"And what if I should tell you," said their mother, laughing, "that a
+little bird has whispered in my ear that 'Colonel Freddy' was
+wonderfully like your little Long Island friend Hilton R----?"
+
+"Oh, mamma! why, what makes you think so?"
+
+"Oh, something funny I heard about him last summer; never mind what!"
+
+The children wisely concluded that it was no use to ask any more
+questions; at the same moment solemnly resolving that the very next time
+they paid a visit to their aunt, who lived at Astoria, they would beg
+her to let them drive over to Mr. R----'s place, and find out all about
+it.
+
+After this, there were no more readings for several Saturdays; but at
+last one morning when the children had almost given up all hopes of more
+stories, George opened his eyes on the sock hanging against the door,
+which looked more bulgy than ever. "Hurrah!" he shouted; "Aunt Fanny's
+daughter hasn't forgotten us, after all!" and dressing himself in a
+double quick, helter-skelter fashion, George dashed out into the entry,
+forgot his good resolution, and slid down the banisters like a streak of
+lightning and began pummelling on his sister's door with both fists;
+shouting, "Come, get up! get up, Nelly! here's another Sock story for
+us!"
+
+This delightful announcement was quite sufficient to make Helen's
+stockings, which she was just drawing on in a lazy fashion, fly up to
+their places in a hurry; then she popped her button-over boots on the
+wrong feet, and had to take them off and try again; and, in short, the
+whole of her dressing was an excellent illustration of that time-honored
+maxim, "The more _haste_, the worse _speed_;" George, meanwhile,
+performing a distracted Indian war dance in the entry outside, until his
+father opened his door and wanted to know what the racket was all about.
+
+"Socks! socks! father!" cried George, joyfully.
+
+At this moment Helen came out, and the two children scampered down
+stairs, and sitting down side by side on the sofa, they proceeded to
+examine this second instalment of the Sock stories. They found it was
+again a whole book; and the title, on a little page by itself, read
+"GERMAN SOCKS."
+
+"Oh, I am so glad!" said Helen. "These must be more stories like that
+dear 'Little White Angel.'"
+
+And so they proved to be; for, on their mother's commencing to read the
+first story, it was found to be called, "God's Pensioners;" and
+commenced, "It was a cold--" but stop! halt! This book was to be devoted
+to "Colonel Freddy;" but if you will only go to Mr. Leavitt's, the
+publishers, you will there discover what was the rest of the second Sock
+Stories.
+
+          THE END.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+Page 41, "dilemna" changed to "dilemma" (horns of this dilemma)
+
+Page 81, "arttisically" changed to "artistically" (his fork
+artistically)
+
+
+
+
+
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