Arrival of the Fifth Cavalry at Fort HaysOut on a ScoutA little Skirmish with IndiansA Buffalo HuntA False Alarm in campA Scout on the BeaverThe Supply Camp is SurprisedArrival of General CarrThe new Lieutenant and his ReceptionAnother Indian HuntAn EngagementA Crack ShotI have a little Indian fight of my ownReturn to Fort WallaceWhile hunting Buffaloes with a small Party, we are Attacked by Fifty Indians.

Got the key?" They skirmished in the gloom, moving through slit-like aisles of furniture and packing-box.

Yes, it was a swallow's nest, Built of clay and hair of horses, Mane, or tail, or dragoon's crest, Found on hedge-rows east and west, After skirmish of the forces.

It represents horses in various attitudes, together with a skirmish between a mounted soldier and a group of men on foot.

[Illustration: Positions occupied by Spanish Soldiers in the Skirmish at Hormigueros.]

Many and hot were the skirmishes on this topicthe only one upon which the old gentleman was ever brought outand bad blood bred; even sometimes almost to the recommencement (so I expected) of actual hostilities.

In the ensuing darkness every one skirmished for themselves.

In a skirmish near Mascara, one of Abd-el-Kader's negro soldiers killed two Frenchmen with his own hand.

I left Paris on the 17th Sept., in the diligence of Auxerre, The company was as follows: a young Genevois who had served in the National Guard at Paris, and had been wounded in a skirmish against the Prussians near that city; a young Irish Templar; a fat citizen of Dijon and an equally fat woman going to Dole.

The small army he had himself been disciplining at Athelney, and training in skirmishes during the last few months, would form a reliable centre on which the rest would have to form as best they could.

[Footnote 1: SOAPINGTON, of the hotel here, and I, have been skirmishing over a board bill for a couple of weeks, and he has finally outflanked me to the amount of about $40.

After skirmishing around the country with the rest of the army for some little time, our regiment returned to Memphis, but was immediately ordered to Cape Girardeau, in Missouri, as a confederate force under General Price was then raiding that state.

Oh, they had occasional small skirmishes among themselves.

He relates battles and skirmishes as from an eyewitness, when his eyes thievishly beguiled a ballad of them.

The official report gives twenty-nine as the number killed in the entire campaign, and Haywood, as in the Island Flats battle, simply puts the total of several skirmishes into one.

I repeat, Lester, that this fellow is a great criminal, and that he finds life infinitely more engrossing than either you or I. I hope I shall meet him some timenot in a little skirmish like this, but in an out-and-out battle.

That body being more accustomed to mountains, and being more adapted, both from the agility of their limbs and also from the character of their arms, to skirmishing amid rocks and crags, easily foiled, by their manner of fighting, an enemy loaded with arms, accustomed to level ground and the steady kind of fighting.

In the meantime there were frequent skirmishes across the marsh, a few on both sides sallying out between the two camps.

But what man can abide a daily skirmish round his house?

Van Hee and I skirmished about and, after much argument, succeeded in hiring two farm-carts to transport the fugitives to Ghent.

Here they were defeated in a slight skirmish by Rhoemetalces the Thracian, despatched in advance against them by Severus, but resisted Severus himself vigorously.

There was a skirmish before the camp, at the same time that many were killed and put to flight in the fields.