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It required some
knowledge in gun-shot wounds to decide this delicate point, but the
experience of the borderers was quite equal to the scrutiny; and a
smile of wild, and certainly of singular satisfaction, passed among
the sons of Ishmael, when Abner confidently announced that the enemies
of Asa had assailed him in the rear.
"It must be so," said the gloomy but attentive squatter. "He was of
too good a stock and too well trained, knowingly to turn the weak side
to man or beast! Remember, boys, that while the front of manhood is to
your enemy, let him be who or what he may, you ar' safe from cowardly
surprise. Why, Eester, woman! you ar' getting beside yourself; with
picking at the hair and the garments of the child! Little good can you
do him now, old girl."
"See!" interrupted Enoch, extricating from the fragments of cloth the
morsel of lead which had prostrated the strength of one so powerful;
"here is the very bullet!"
Ishmael took it in his hand and eyed it long and closely.
"There's no mistake," at length he muttered through his compressed
teeth.


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