THREE:"I justdon't like it," he said carefully. "Iwell, there isn't anything I can do about it, is there?"
THREE:The mention of need for cartridges was an electric impulse which set the boys keenly alive. They bundled their rations into their haversacks, and flung their blanket rolls over their shoulders, and were standing in a state of palpitating expectancy, when Shorty came back with his hands full of cartridges, which he proceeded to distribute.
THREE:With eager eyes they scanned the landscape of billowy mountains and hills to the east and south.
TWO:"Silence in the ranks," commanded Si. "Draw your stomachs in, put your little fingers down to the seams of your pantaloons"












