MILITARY POLICE. 



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in a ferocious voice, without being able to see the sen- 

 tinel, I always imagined him with his musket at his 

 shoulder, peering through the darkness to take aim. I 

 felt less safe by reason of my foreign pronunciation ; 

 but I never met any one, native or stranger, who was 

 not nervous when within reach of the sentinePs chal- 

 lenge, or who would not go two squares out of the way 

 to avoid it. 



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