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Show SKIRMISH LINE AT CRECOMOOR. Inspiring Sight In Advance of Shim Bsttle Skirmishers To the spectator the skirmish run ll the most Interesting of the matches rays I lent Frank F. Evans In Out Ing Hlx hundred ards from tho tar gits the thin line nf skirmisher, awaits the Forward itiarrh' ot tht bugle Then It wavers forward anil at Ihe Gnu yard line halts and drops With the last note of commence flr Ing' the rifles spatter and crack Then on tn the other ram s the line swings now at quick and now In the cadence of douhV time the men car rylng their plecea In characteristic altitude At the In-best of Ihe bugle ihe line drops to the ground and pumps out Its leaden flight at tho tar I gets The firing grows fatter and I more furious the bugle rings out roc I low nnd char and at the short range the line writhes with tbe quick flathet of magnrlne fire and rattling shuttle of crackling sounds and the whirr ol bullela The crash nnd rattle ot the raged volleys It ml a realism to thli relentless advance by picked rlflemer upon the allhouetted figures of till paper tageta that brings even to tht man who knows not the butt from th mutate ot a rlfk the old hhmd lull back from the ill tomb nf ancestors |