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I should be a powerful sight more kam if I knowed that when I was away huntin' stock or fightin' stakes with them Harrisons, that she was a settin' there with them and the birds and the bees, and listenin' to them and to you.
"'How you come in the ship, senor? asked the general as soon as he could speak. "'By the back door whist! says I. ''Twas a glorious blow for liberty we struck, I continues; 'but we was overpowered by numbers. Let us accept our defeat like brave men and eat another banana. "'Were you in the cause of liberty fightin', senor? says the general, sheddin' tears on the cargo.
"Thar'll be some cussin' and a big row from YOU, I kalkilate and maybe some fightin' all round," said Scranton dispassionately. "But it will be all the same in the end. The hull thing will come out, and you'll hev to slide just the same. T'otherwise, ef ye slide out NOW, it's without a row." "And do you suppose a business man like me can disappear without a fuss over it?" said Farendell angrily.
I never see sech fightin'. Awful time. I don't see how I could 'a got separated from th' reg'ment. I got shot, too." His friend had stepped forward quickly. "What? Got shot? Why didn't yeh say so first? Poor ol' boy, we must hol' on a minnit; what am I doin'. I'll call Simpson." Another figure at that moment loomed in the gloom. They could see that it was the corporal.
Seems that Brad hadn't delivered all the goods mentioned in the bill of sale. Bob wouldn't settle until he got the goods. "Well, Brad hung around Chicago, fightin' firewater and always gettin' licked at it, for two years or more. Then he up and sashayed to New York for a show-down with our old friend Robert. He had blood in his eye, Brad had.
As one fellow blew the mud from his mouth and nose he bawled: "I wish Sherman and Hood were both in hell this minute!" "Yes, and fightin' it out to suit themselves!" his comrade answered. On through the black night the long blue lines crept under lowering skies toward their foe, the stern face of William Tecumseh Sherman grimly set on his desperate purpose.
More than once I've seen two hundred thousand men fightin', and I've heard the cannon roarin', days without stoppin'. I still git to dreamin' at night 'bout all them battles, an' when I awake, an' set up sudden like an' hear nothin' outside but the tricklin' o' the branch an' the wind in the leaves, I'm thankful that them four years are over, an' nobody is shootin' at nobody else.
This'n's the Cock-ot. Happen you've heard tell of her. That'n's the Cock-it. Sister-ships. And 'ot and 'it they'll be afoor long if I can make em so." He spun the wheel discreetly. "At dawn I found em atween me and Newhaven. So I went about; I wasn't on the fightin lay half my ship's company short, and this here in my pocket for Nelson." He tapped his breast. "Thought I'd run for Dover.
"'Poor remnants of the Bleeding Heart, Ellen and I will seek, apart, The refuge of some forest cell, There like the hunted quarry dwell, Till on the mountain and the moor, The stern pursuit be passed and o'er," he quoted humbly. "I like ter read all 'bout fightin' well 'nough, but durn it, Cap, it kinder hurts whin they hits ye on ther head with a gun." His face lit up suddenly.
"I don't half like it," said the mate, "It seems to me that we'll only have hard fightin' and no pay." "No pay!" repeated the captain, in a voice of suppressed anger, "Do you call a good cargo all for nothing no pay?" "Very true," returned the mate; "but we've got the cargo aboard. Why not cut your cable and take French leave o' them?
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