Not only this, but the engagements that seemed to us to be battles, or remarkably lifelike imitations of battles, may be dismissed by the historians as unimportant skirmishes and contacts, while those engagements that we carelessly referred to at the time as "scraps" may well prove, in the light of future events, to have been of far greater significance than we realized.

Many of them lay in attitudes strangely lifelike,here one resting its head upon its arm, there a white face falling easily back as if it looked up at the stars.

It was the figure of a man, standing erect, and looking straight before him with a wonderfully lifelike expression.