Finally a shot fired from some high point grazed Ned's cap, and flattened against the rock behind him.

The boy involuntarily ducked against the earth.

Obed also lay lower.
"Some Mexican must have climbed a tree," said the Maine man.

"He's where he can look over our fortifications and that gives him an advantage.

It also gives him a disadvantage because it will be harder for him to come down out of that tree unaided than it was for him to go up in it.