Show sense of duty guy preston of the UnIted states army ai my saved fismen at the figh nt wounded knee by remember ing the sentiment of the old French proverb firo verb 1 nobility feces necessitates situates ribble noble con arct duct lie he was holding holdin ff his men in line before the indian fired everyone ans looking for foi ito trouble able of some kind but it was the unexpected that liap bened ened tile the indians indiana were hovering about with their blankets blanke ts round the them in when the sign ill was given by one of them and in an instant every buck throw threw away his blanket and stood revealed with a gun in his hig nand hand the redskins red skins fired they had ad every advantage of the sol dierso for they outnumbered them and had taken them wholly by surprise surp riso the solders ran lan they did not mean to run far but they needed soma sort of cover but preston looking back over his shoulder ter see if the indian wore were following or for whatever ji purpose a man looks back at a dangerous fee saw the arripe peon on this shoulder bh and epperle experienced need a istock JS it occurred to him at the instant ahat he was running away with the 4 13 ft w it atit A olgaa K i n abri i i 1 hn ain asig nia of rank that ills ids govern men menthal thad upon liim him flint IW hj was in a i way the present Ic dative of a nation ani and that flint hf ought not to run lie stopped ped of courso course thore there was no well defined object in his hia stopping but tile the test rest of tile tho men saw him stand ing there without covner and return ins ing th the c alre of tile the indians s they burned back and in five minutes it NY was as ill all over zad and the indians were benten it would have been nothing ashor of a ul aughter had preston gone with the yest root for there was no cover until the top of the hill was r reached and that was so distant that the indian would have had tin easy time picking of off the ven as i th they ey ran Iea tona s idea of duty was waa what saved the day yutha companion Compani cn |