Show A camp experience A rhode island soldier eol dier while on picket guard was rushed upon apon by bt a 6 party of confederate cavalry ho he fired at the foremost of them and ray ran before him wass was an open field about fifty rods across bounded by an fence and beyond that a thicket of briers and underbrush for this bushy bashy retreat th tho 1 soldier started a half dozen horsemen after him fortunately for the fugitive the rains had softened the soil and the tha horses slumped through the turf so badly that pursuit was slow alow A pistol ball passed through the runners hat but he reached the fence and with one bound landed on tho the top in tending to give a long iong spring ahead I 1 but the old fence crumbled beneath hut his weight and down he went but luck favored him again for a hol hog had bad rooted out a gutter at this place t and at the moment was lying in it the 6 soldier fell plump into tho the hole and the frightened hog hoa uttered one squeal and and scampered into the underbrush leaving the be newcomer in possession of the wallow and buried under tho the debris of tat fence A minute more and up dashed the th E horsemen 11 On Semen hearing the rustle of the seeing fleeing ho hog in the bushes they supposed it to bo be the tha picket a and nd dashed through h the gap in the fence and hastened on when they were well out of sight the fugitive crawled out fro from the and ran back to camp the following day one of the same game horsemen was taken prisoner our oar hero haro recognized him at once 1 I say bay he asked did you vatch that ho hog g yesterday we did that retorted the prisoner but t it the one ona we wa were after youths companion I 1 |