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"Say, Milt, what does it cost to go to school down there?" "Depends on who goes. Cost me 'bout forty dollars a term. Shep an' I room it and cook our own grub." "What's the tuition?" "Eight dollars a term." "Feller could go to the public school for nauthin', couldn't he?" "Yes, and that'd be all it 'ud be worth," said Milton with fine scorn at an inferior institution. "What does a room cost?"
Hoggenback and Happy were talking beside his bunk. "Never you mind," said Hoggenback, "somebody'll get that guy sooner or later." "Git him, nauthin'! The fellers in that camp was so damn skeered they jumped if you snapped yer fingers at 'em. It's the discipline. I'm tellin' yer, it gits a feller in the end," said Happy.
I was alone wi' nauthin' o' what had happened, save the open knife in my han', the trampled beach, an' my torn an' ruined clawthin'. "'Then I remembered that old McGregor used to say that nauthin' bad could pass runnin' water, an' I thought I'd get back to ye if I could.
"But Chris, why did you go A.W.O.L.?" "Oh, Ah doan know.... A guy who's in the Paris detachment got yer address for me." "But, Chris, did they say anything to him about me?" "No, nauthin'." "That's funny.... Well, Chris, I'll be there tomorrow, if I can find the place." "Man, you've got to be there." "Oh, I'll turn up," said Andrews with a smile. They shook hands nervously.
'Well, Stephen, what's the matter? 'Oh, nauthin', was the dull response. 'Is it Howe? was the next question, in a softer tone. The sound of the name unsealed the fountain. 'Yes, it's Howe. The words came with a gulp, and then followed tears, dropping on the pavement large and fast. He did not weep alone.
I remember somethin' of tearin' through the lonely beach an' blasted woods, of seein' more faces in the trees, an' hearin' quick footsteps on my track, but I remember nauthin' more. Look at my hip, will you, wi' the cannle there? It hurts me awfully. "The candle fell from Jane's shaking hands, but was caught by her husband before it was extinguished.
"'The cool water did feel nice; an' as I stepped ashore, I whistled up "The Devil's Dream," an' struck out across the beach, when, looking back, I saw, between me an' the stream, a man who made at me with terrible ferceness. I can tell you nauthin' about him, 'cept that his clothes were black an' strange, his face dark an' savage, an' his eyes almost like fire.
"I tell you, fellers," he said, "war ain't no picnic." Chrisfield stood up and grabbed at an apple. His teeth crunched into it. "Sweet," he said. "Sweet, nauthin'," mumbled Judkins, "war ain't no picnic.... I tell you, buddy, if you take any prisoners" he hiccoughed "after what the Colonel said, I'll lick the spots out of you, by God I will.... Rip up their guts that's all, like they was dummies.
"Well, so was I. I doan think nauthin o' them guys that are so stuck up 'cause they enlisted, d'you?" "Not a hell of a lot." "Don't yer?" came a voice from the other side of Andrews, a thin voice that stuttered. "W-w-well, all I can say is, it'ld have sss-spoiled my business if I hadn't enlisted. No, sir, nobody can say I didn't enlist." "Well, that's your look-out," said Applebaum.
"Ah tell you, boy, you ought to come with us to Germany... nauthin' but whores in Paris." "The trouble is, Chris, that I don't want to live like a king, or a sergeant or a major-general.... I want to live like John Andrews." "What yer goin' to do in Paris, Andy?" "Study music."
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