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"master of the situation," and to hold myself erect, and look as much at ease as possible. I am sure I cut as sorry a figure as poor John Gilpin did when he set out on his "sentimental tour," to the astonishment of all the village. We capered along at rather a slow pace at first, mostly through fields and woods, down declivities and over streams, where sometimes the animal I rode would persistently refuse to stir a step until it had slaked its thirst, notwithstanding all the coaxings, a la Rarey, and sundry kicks in the side which it received. Sometimes as I passed stray groups of citizen soldiers, I fancied that they took particular notice of my awkward horsemanship; but I consoled myself by the reflection that they were but novices in military experience, as I was in the new art to which I aspired. Col. Chisholm finally apprised me that we were in close proximity to the battle- field — a fact, indeed, easily perceptible from the intolerable effluvia which greeted my nostrils