Did you ever before see
such cool running water, and Dickie, old boy, remember how much there was
of it! It was just as deep and cool and fine after we left it."
"George," said Dick, as he wiped his dusty face, "if you say anything
more about the creek and its cool water this army will lose a capable
lieutenant, and it will lose him mighty soon. It will be necessary, too,
to bury him very far from his home in Vermont."
"Keep cool, Dickie boy, and let who will be dusty. Brooks may fail once
in a hundred years in Kentucky, but they haven't failed in a thousand in
Vermont. You need not remind me that the white man has been there only
two or three hundred years. My information comes straight from a very
old Indian chief who was the depository of tribal recollections
absolutely unassailable. The streams even in midsummer come down as full
and cold as ever from the mountains."
"We'll have water and plenty of it in a day or two. The scouts say that
the Confederate force at the springs is not strong enough to withstand
us."
"But General Buell, not knowing exactly what General Bragg intends with
his divided force, has divided his own in order to meet him at all
points.
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