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That little Welshman, for instance, lying on a ledge of rock above our Brigade Headquarters with a great gaping shrapnel wound in his abdomen imploring the Medical Officer in the Gaelic tongue to "put him out," and how he died, with a morphia tablet in his mouth, singing at the top of his high-pitched voice "When the midnight chu-chu leaves for Alabam! I'll be right there!
Up and down, aimlessly, with his stoker's torch in his hand, going over the years gone and the years to come, with the dead hatred through all of the pitiless man above him, with now and then, perhaps, a pleasanter thought of things that had been warm and cheerful in his life, of the corn-huskings long ago, when he was a boy, down in "th' Alabam'," of the scow his young master gave him once, the first thing he really owned: he was almost as proud of it as he was of Lois when she was born.
Finally, however, he stretched himself and said: "We er gwine down in de naberhoods er Tallypoosy, an we ain't makin' no fuss 'bout it, nudder." "I disremember," said Uncle Remus, thoughtfully, "whar Tallypoosy is." "Oh, hit's out yan," replied the old man, motioning his head as if it was just beyond the iron gates of the depot. "Hit's down in Alabam.
I'm gwine ter hang yer up by yer thumbs en' take ev'y bit er yer black hide off'n yer, en' den I'm gwine ter sell yer ter de fus' specilater w'at comes' long buyin' niggers fer ter take down ter Alabam'. W'at yer mean by runnin' er way fum yer good, kin' marster, yer good-fer-nuthin', wool-headed, black scound'el?
No, neither him, nor Rivers, nor any of the regulators thank the powers ain't to be seen nowhere. They're all off up into the nation, I guess, or off, down in Alabam by this time, clear enough." "And who did you see at the rocks, and what men were they that made you prisoners?" "Men if I said men, I was 'nation out, I guess. Did I say men?" "I understood you so." "'Twan't men at all.
As a rule the most successful sorties are those in the early morning. We are called while it's still dark. Sleepily I try to reconcile the French orderly's muttered, C'est l'heure, monsieur, that rouses me from slumber, with the strictly American words and music of "When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'" warbled by a particularly wide-awake pilot in the next room.
"Ha, ha!" exclaimed the outlier, in concert, and from the deeper emphasis which he gave it, in chorus to the laughter which followed, among the party, the dry expression of the old man's humor "Ha, ha! old boy you have the swing of it to-night," continued the visiter, as he rode off to his companions; "but, if you don't mind, we shall smoke you before you get into Alabam!"
And if you want more I guess old Alabam' can come up to the demand. Johnny told me when he left home that if he struck anything down here that there was any money in he'd let me in on it. Shall I drive the ships in and hitch?" A look of supreme, almost incredulous, delight dawned in Keogh's ruddy countenance. He dropped his pencil.
We shall do all that we can toward giving you a fair start in the stream, and it will not be often that you shall require a helping-hand in paddling your canoe." "I know'd it, Master Colleton. 'Tain't in Carolina, nor in Georgy, nor Virginny, no nor down in Alabam, that a man will look long for provisions, and see none come. That's the people for me.
The music started up, and a moving-picture soloist with a moving-picture soloist's voice, appeared in the edge of the illuminated space and rendered a moving-picture ballad, having reference to the joys of life down in Old Alabam', where the birds are forever singing in the trees and the cotton-blossoms bloom practically without cessation.
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