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Then they told him of its marvellous richness, and, as Tappan Adney relates, when Henderson realized what he had lost through Carmack's treachery, "he threw down his shovel and went and sat on the bank, so sick at heart that it was some time before he could speak."

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Then they told him of its marvellous richness, and, as Tappan Adney relates, when

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At a husking party one evening, several of the young men proposed that Adney should go with them on a deer hunt in the "great woods," before he went back to his regiment.

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Adney, who was a bright, handsome young fellow, then in his twentieth year, looked very spruce in his blue uniform.

When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

Adney that he instantly declared that he could drive them out alone.

When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

The laughter only stimulated Adney to make good his rather loud boast, if possible; and the result was, that he hit on the following stratagem for routing the "skedaddlers."

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It chanced that in October, that fall, a young volunteer, named Adney

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Others who were present thought they would dare; and Adney became excited.

When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

Adney then stationed one of the boys with his drum at a point to the northeast of the log fortress, at a distance of about half a mile from it, in the thick woods.

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Adney himself went down near the fort, just at dusk, and contrived to give the inmates a glimpse of his figure in his army blue -- as if he were

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