Miscellanies
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ISBN13: 9780217239875
Paperback|9780217239875
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VL THE CHIitP WAGOX?SIILITARY EPISODES. The covered wagon to which I was ordered to march was standing, as I have said, in the court-yard of the farm, with another dismal vehicle of the same kind hard by it. Each was pretty well filled with a crew of men, whom the atrocious crimp, who had seized upon me, had enlisted under the banners of the glorious Frederick; and I could see by the lanterns of the sentinels, as they thrust me into the straw, a dozen dark figures huddled together in the horrible moving prison where I was now to be confined. A scream and a curse from my opposite neighbour showed me that he was most likely wounded, as I myself was; and, during the whole of the wretched night, the moans and sobs of the poor fellows in similar captivity kept up a continual, painful chorus, which effectually prevented my getting any relief from my ills in sleep. At midnight (as far as I could judge) the horses were put to the wagons, and the creaking, lumbering machines were put in motion. A couple of soldiers, strongly armed, sat on the outer bench of the cart, and their grim faces peered in with their lanterns every now and then through the canvas curtains, that they might count the number of their prisoners. The brutes were half drunk, and were singing love and war songs, such as O Gretchen inein TaiibcJien mein Herzenstrompet, Mein Kanon mein Heerpauk undmeineMusket, Prim Eugen der edleEitter, and the like; their wild whoops zndjodels making doleful discord with the groans of us captives within the wagons. Many a time afterwards have I heard these ditties sung on the march, or in the barrack-room, or round the fires as we lay out at night. I was not near so unhappy, in spite of all, as I had been on my first enlisting in Ireland. At least, thought I, if I am...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217239875 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217239870 |
| Weight | 1.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.83 In |
| List Price | $17.85 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 374 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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