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The drums and fifes were playing "Unadilla" as the regiment marched past; and my riflemen, lounging along the roadside, exchanged pleasantries with the hardy Palatines, or greeted acquaintances in their impudent, bantering manner: "Hello! What's this Low Dutch regiment? Say, Han Yost, the pigs has eat off your queue-band! Bedad, they marrch like Albany ducks in fly-time!
Under his ordering, horses had been bought for the school, cropped, docked and trimmed on the most approved lines, until nothing but a hopeless, forlorn stubble indicated that they had once boasted manes or forelocks, and poor little affairs like whisk-brooms served for tails, or rather did not serve, especially in fly-time. But that was a minor consideration. Fashion's dictates were obeyed.
Dunno who'd oughta know that better'n I do. Trouble, Racey well, say, I'm just made of trouble I am." "Aw, it ain't as bad as that," encouraged Racey. "Yes, it is, too," contradicted the other. "I got more trouble on my hands than a rat-tailed hoss tied short in fly-time. Trouble nothing but." "Nothing is as bad as it looks." "Heaps of times she's worse." "I'm yore friend. You know me.
In fly-time he found a bountiful food-supply in the mosquitoes and black-flies that swarmed over the stream, and it was fun to see him leap from the water, catch one of them in his mouth, and drop back with a triumphant little splash.
Potts closed his umbrella on the shadow of the buttonwood relieving guard, facilitated his descent from the Virginia fence by an ungraceful application of her horns to the amplitude of his venerable person. It was in the summer following, that the incident I am about to relate occurred. It was fly-time, I remember it well.
Peter stood at the window, his head now enveloped in smoke, and kept peering out at the porch from which Mrs. Dawson was moving the various articles pertaining to her bed, such as slats, posts, railings, mattress, pillows, sheets, and coverings. "She's as busy as a hoss's tail in fly-time," he observed. "Oh, Lawsy mercy!"
In the kitchen I caught scraps of Brer Rabbit's history, pithily applied, other scraps of song Mammy always "gave out" the words to herself before singing them proverbs and sayings such as "Cow want her tail agin in fly-time" applied to an ingrate, or: "Dat's er high kick fer er low horse," by way of setting properly in place a pretender.
"I'm just a-goin' to lay on my fedder bed," she broke out, "or direc'ly I won't have none. I ain't a-goin' to have Mr. Ralph carryin' off my quilts my mudder pieced fur me." Mrs. Wheeler tried to reason with her, but the old woman took up her bed in her arms and staggered down the hall with it, muttering and tossing her head like a horse in fly-time.
A moment after, the manoeuvre was repeated with a similar result, and I could hear the hunter gritting his teeth. "The cowardly skunks!" muttered he; "they keep a-gwine like a bull's tail in fly-time." In fact, every time Lincoln brought his piece to a level, the guerilleros ducked, until not a head could be seen.
What would you do, if the folks without names kept at you, trying to get a San Benito on to your shoulders that would fit you? Would you stand still in fly-time, or would you give a kick now and then? Let 'em bite! said the Little Gentleman, let 'em bite! It makes 'em hungry to shake 'em off, and they settle down again as thick as ever and twice as savage.
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