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And the next day the Carlists had a picquet within a musket shot of the gate, and a vidette under cover of an olive ground within pistol shot, words sallied out in the evening & we had a bit of a skrimmage driving in the picquet with a company of the Zaragoza regiment — After this I curtailed my beats, but had some narrow escapes indeed it was a wonder that I was not word. The gun I shot with at this time was a queer affair with a mouth like a hand bell and locks fit for a 24 pounder Carbine powder and sometimes shot manufactured from bullets. It was an excellent shot gun notwithstanding and many a good day I had with it in the beautiful garden like valley of