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But no one ever heard the old man use harsher language in speaking of her than to remark that she was "a female Jineral that's what Tabitha is." Perhaps she was, and but for her the Bishop and his household had starved long ago. "Furagin' is her strong point" he would always add "she'd made Albert Sydney Johnston a great chief of commissary." And there was not an herb of any value that Mrs.
For furagin' an' free love for ev'rything they beats the worl', an' they pay mo' 'tenshun to their com'sary department than they do to their ord'nance. They'll march anywhere you want 'em, swim rivers or build bridges, fight on ship or sho', strong in camp-meetin's or battle songs, an' when they go, they go like clockwuck an' carry their dead with 'em!
She watched him drive slowly over the hill: "That means I had better get a move on me an' go to furagin'," she said to herself. "Hillard Watts has mistuck me for the Almighty mighty nigh all his life. It's about time the blackberries was a gittin' ripe anyway." The Bishop found the greatest distress at Uncle Dave Dickey's.
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