At the samemoment the gun exploded behind him, the ammunition blew up, there wasfire all about him, and he found himself lying under a heap of charreddead men and dead horses."I lay still," he said, "scared out of my wits, with the fore quarterof a horse atop of me. We'd been wiped out. And the smell--goodGod! Like burnt meat! I was hurt across the back by the fall ofthe horse, and there I had to lie until I felt better.
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