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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: Ill It might have been a month later that Ealph one day forcibly drew Spurbridge from an ancient text-book on electrics that had been dug from among the forgotten volumes of the post library, and said to him: How should you like to take a hunting trip with me? Spurbridge looked up at him with sparkling eyes. There is no question of ' how, ' said he, except of how soon we can do it. You think the colonel will let us go ? Dead sure, Kalph replied. It's the middle of November now, and there's so little to be done in garrison that we're not needed. If we go out for twenty days and bring back a wagon load of deer and turkey and one thing or another, the whole garrison will take it as a delicate attention. I have often noticed that a haunch of venison is quite acceptable, even to those who have no taste for the hunt. What shall we need for equipment ? Spurbridge asked. For he was theoretical rather than practical in all matters relating to the field. A. six-mule wagon and the buckboard, a Sibley and a wall-tent, rifles and cartridges galore, and seven or eight good men picked from your company and mine; a double allowance of blankets, and a few trifling attentions to the commissariat. Do you like the outlook? Indeed I do, said Spurbridge, warmly. I'm stupid, cooped up as I have been in garrison. Let's get off soon as we can. There proved no insuperable obstacles to the trip. Indeed, the applications for leave went through with such celerity that there seemed a possibility of the colonel being in a hurry for his venison. As a fact, being a soldier of considerable acumen, he was gratified that his young officers should desire to get out of the post and rough it a little, even in a peaceful sort of way. Spur- bridge, being new, had no ...