Part 10 (1/2)

he's too noble for eant I've no work that's fit for him, sir; no! daood enough for hi the d----d rebels out of the land”

And in order to send Seliant new saddle and holsters, with his silver- Macdonald a hot breakfast, and lending hio, with a pro and see how colonel Tarleton liked young Seli he waited on colonel Tarleton, and told his na countenance of one who expected to be eaten up with fondness

But alas! to his infinite e of feature

After recovering a little from his embarrasser

”Charger, sir!” replied Tarleton

”Yes, sir, the elegant horse I sent you yesterday”

”The elegant horse you sent eant, sir, as he called hieant! Why really, sir, I-I-I don't understand all this!”

The looks and voice of colonel Tarleton too sadly convinced the old traitor that he had been 'bit'; and that young Seli and pale, cried out, ”Why, eant yesterday with your compliments to me, and a request that I would send you er, which I did?”

”No, sir, never!” replied Tarleton: ”I never sent a sergeant on any such errand Nor till this mo as you”

To have been outwitted in this eant -- to have lost his peach brandy -- his hot breakfast -- his great coat -- his new saddle -- his silverhorse, his young, full-blooded, bounding Selis, falling at once on the train and tinder of his passions, blew thee that the old sinner had like to have been suffocated on the spot He turned black in the face; he shook throughout; and as soon as he could recover breath and power of speech, he broke out into a torrent of curses, enough to raise the hair on any Christian man's head

Nor was colonel Tarleton much behind him, when he cah his hands And a noble horse he was indeed! Full sixteen hands high; the eye of a hawk, the spirit of the king eagle; a chest like a lion; swifter than a roebuck, and strong as a buffalo

I asked Macdonald, how he could reconcile it to himself to take the old poltroon's horse in that way?

”Why, sir,” replied he, ”as to that matter, people will think differently; but for my part I hold that all is fair in war: and, besides, sir, if I had not taken hiot hier as this, he ht do us as much harm as I hope to do to theeance; for he had no th, it was such, that with one of Potter's blades he would oon, than a boy would, with a case-knife, to chip off the head of a carrot And then, he always kept Selim up so lustily to the top of his metal

He was so fond of him, that I verily believe he would at any tiet corn for him And truly Selilimpse of a red coat, he would paw and chao”, off he was a them like a thunderbolt

And to see how Macdonald would charge, you would swear the fear of death was never before his eyes Whether it was one or ten against hiallant Scotsman He never stopped to count noses, but would dash in upon the thickest of the down like a very fury incarnate

Poor Macdonald! the are red cheeks have, long ago been food for worht 'Twas in the days when the British held Georgetown; and Marion had said to me, ”Go and reconnoitre” I took only Macdonald with me Before day we reached our place of concealment, a thick clump of pines near the road, and in full view of the enean to peep, we heard the town all alive, as it were, with druoons turn out, and with prancing steeds dash up the road towards us I turned my eye on Macdonald, and saw his face all kindled up with the joy of battle

It was like that terrible joy which flashes fro forth of the buffaloes towards his glooainst us, five to two”

”By my soul now captain,” he replied, ”and let 'em come on

Three are welcome to the sword of Macdonald”

Soon as they were coles, and with drawn sabres broke in upon them like a tornado

Their panic was co in the road The re to their heels, went off as if old Nick had been bringing up the rear

Then you oons can raise, when, hip and spur and wildly rolling eyes, they bend forward fro but a heavy brute, was soon distanced But they could not distance the swift-footed Selim Rapid as the deadly blast of the desert, he pursued their dusty course, still gathering upon them at every juh so near, he brought his furious rider alongside of two of them, whom he cut down

One hundred yards further, and the third also would have been slain; for Macdonald, with his criuns of the fort coh quickly pursued by the eneant horse of one of the dragoons whom he had killed

Chapter 10

The abomination and desolation set up in South Carolina -- the author, with sorrowful heart, quits his native land, and flies to the north in quest of warlike friends -- fortunate rencontre with his gallant friend colonel Marion -- curious adventures