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| 42 | 45 | When two View more quotes about ashigaru">Ashigaru came about the tent to investigate the local collapse of canvas they encountered Haruki, apparently bewildered, who called their attention to the loose ropes and sagging canvas, not that this situation really required his exposition. |
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| 42 | 42 | While Haruki kept watch, Tajima and I kicked, loosened, and drew up several of the tent pegs or stakes, at the back of the tent, which would produce a sagging at that point. |
| 42 | 43 | These tent pegs, or stakes, were large, pointed, rounded pieces of wood, most of which were something like a foot and a half in length, and two to three horts in diameter. |
| 42 | 44 | I mention these measurements as it may make more clear the application to which they were shortly to be put. |
| 42 | 45 | When two Ashigaru came about the tent to investigate the local collapse of canvas they encountered Haruki, apparently bewildered, who called their attention to the loose ropes and sagging canvas, not that this situation really required his exposition. |
| 42 | 46 | I fear they might have been unkind to Haruki, but they had little opportunity to do so, as Tajima and I, armed with the tent pegs, or stakes, if you will, approaching from different sides, struck them, from behind, heavily. |
| 42 | 47 | It was shortly thereafter that the other two Ashigaru came to look into the matter, perhaps curious to know what was delaying their fellows. |
| 42 | 48 | Behind the tent, they encountered Haruki, seemingly bewildered, indicating the two mysteriously prone Ashigaru, whom our new arrivals, the other two Ashigaru, quickly joined. |