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• From the nearest watch-tower the sentries shouted a sonorous alarm, and their voices were drowned by a shrill and more distant burst of Indian yells CHAPTER XIX ANOTHER VISITOR That the redskins were making an attack in force on the stockade was my first and immediate conclusion, but it gave me no great uneasiness since I knew how stoutly we were protected. —  The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
• For a great dance is proceeding Immediately within the principal gate of the stockade is a large open space, and in this the dancers are performing. —  The Sign of the Spider
• "One stormy night these two logs were removed from the stockade, and four of the best horses in the stable were run off. —  George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers
• The sentry who will be on duty between the stable and the stockade is also one of us, and of course he will raise no objection when we slip out of the quarters, one by one, and climb the stockade. —  George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers
• Arriving within a mile of the stockade, a halt was ordered, the men were dismounted, and, every fourth trooper being left to hold the horses, the others marched off through the darkness, armed only with their revolvers. —  George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers

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