. Parmi les camps, ou, les histoires de la guerre des jeunes . foot, une demi-douzaine de jeunes gays, riant et se vantant de ce qu'ils feraient, et Jack les regardait enviement tandis que leurs formes s'estompaient au crépuscule. Ils n'ont pas réussi à capturer l'officier ; ils ont capturé un certain nombre de chevaux et un piquet au pont, et sont sortis triomphants, avec seulement un ou deux de leur num-ber légèrement blessés. Peu de temps après, ils sont venus, et ont eu un grand temps de raconter leurs expériences. Ils aidaient la carte que Jack a faite pour eux, et avaient obtenu beyondles piquetage en toute sécurité et ont atteint le camp. Là, trouver

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. Among the camps; or, Young people's stories of the war . foot, a half-dozen gay youngfellows, laughing and boasting of what they would do, andJack watched them enviously as their forms faded away in thenight. They did not succeed in capturing the officer ; butthey captured a number of horses and a picket at the bridge, and came off triumphant, with only one or two of their num-ber slightly wounded. Shortly afterwards they came over, and had a great time telling their experiences. They hadused the map Jack made for them, and had got safely beyondthe pickets and reached the camp. There, finding the sen-tries on guard, they turned back, and taking the road, marched down on the picket, as if they had come to relievethem. Coming from the camp in this way, they had o-otupon the picket, when, suddenly drawing their pistols andpoking them up against the Yankees, they forced them tosurrender, and disarmed them. Then taking two of themoff separately, they compelled them to give the countersign.Having got this, they left the prisoners under guard of two. JACK AND JAKEr 125 of their number, and the rest went back to camp. W^ith thecountersign they passed the sentry, and went into the camp.Then they found that the commanding officer had gone offsomewhere, and was not in camp that night, and there wereso many men stirring about that they did not dare to wait.They determined, therefore, to capture some horses andreturn. They were looking over the lines of horses to taketheir pick when they were discovered. Each man hadselected a horse, and was trying to get him, when the alarmwas given, and they were fired on. They had only time tocut the halters when the camp began to pour out. Flingingthemselves on the horses backs, they dashed out under afusillade, firing right and left. They took to the road, but ithad been picketed, and they had to dash through the menwho held it under a fire poured into their faces. All hadpassed safely except one, whose horse had become unman-ageable, and ha

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