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"'Impossible, Monsieur! interrupted the colonel, looking as stern as if about to charge single-handed a whole pult of Cossacks. But I knew my man. He was the type of a class of which I have seen many. "'Cependant, Monsieur, entre militaires, between brother-soldiers "'Ah!
But they were not in condition to care for following the usual fashion of dining, and least of all did they desire a dinner of different courses, so long as they had one sufficiently substantial to satisfy the simple demands of hunger. The two hornbills promised, each of them, a fair piece-de-resistance, while the fat pult was plainly a titbit, to be taken either hors d'oeuvres, or as an entree.
'He pult him over to a big bog-hole, And sunk him undher four-foot o' wather, And built him down wid many a thumpin' stone. And slipt the bank out on the corpus afther.
"I don't know about it," says he, sort o' musin'ly. "I am gettin' pretty old to begin it, but I don't know but I might get to be a doctor now." Says he, brightenin' up, "It can't take much study to deal out a dose of salts now and then, or count anybody's pult." But says I firmly, "Give up that idee at once, Josiah Allen.
Rita's face glowed with excitement. "Oh, Marm Prudence," she cried; "how glorious! Oh, what fortune, what joy, to be here with you! We will work together; we will toil; our blood shall flow in fountains, if it is needed. Embrace me, mother of Cuba!" Marm Prudence put on her spectacles, and surveyed the excited girl with some anxiety. "Let me feel your pult, dear!" she said, soothingly.
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