有声英语少儿童话故事 顽童故事 斯莱特山的雪堡 第11章

Asthe winter wore on, the war-spirit waxed fiercer and fiercer. At length theprovision against using heavy substances in the snow-balls was disregarded. Aball stuck full of sand-bird shot came tearing into Fort Slatter. Inretaliation, General Harris ordered a broadside of shells; i. e. snow-ballscontaining marbles. After this, both sides never failed to freeze theirammunition.

Itwas no longer child’s play to march up to the walls of Fort Slatter, nor wasthe position of the besieged less perilous. At every assault three or four boyson each side were disabled. It was not an infrequent occurrence for thecombatants to hold up a flag of truce while they removed some insensiblecomrade.