First aid, and--here! Water, some one.

Ugh! I feel sick as a dog." I caught hold of him and saved him from falling by lowering him down upon a stone, just as there was the soft _pad, pad_ of naked feet behind me, and a familiar voice said: "Water, Boss.

Here water, sah!" "Joeboy!" I whispered as I turned and caught a waterbottle from an extended black hand.

"You here!" "Um?
Yes, Boss Val.

Couldn't run no more, and come away back." I handed the water to the Colonel, who drank with avidity; then I tightly bound up the cut on his leg, for he impatiently refused to have it examined by one of the officers who had hurried up; and then, as soon as I was at liberty, I turned to the black.
"Have you seen the Lieutenant, Joeboy ?" I said excitedly.
"Um?
Boss Denham!" he replied.