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A sojer from out West left this yere letter fer yer father at Hawkins's place more nor a week ago. Said as how it was mighty important; but blamed if this was n't the fust chance he 's hed to git it over yere sence. I told him I 'd fetch it, as it was n't more nor a dozen miles er so outer my way."
That was no time for hesitancy, and I was already preparing to do likewise, when the guard, a surly-looking brute, promptly inserted the point of his bayonet into my ragged garment, accompanying this kindly act with a stern order to remain where I was. "An' what fo' yo' do dat, Señor Sojer?"
The proposition was received with cheers, and Tom rattled away these ringing rhymes "Oh there's not a trade that's going Worth showing, Or knowing, Like that from glory growing, For a bowld sojer boy; Where right or left we go, Sure you know, Friend or foe Will have the hand or toe From a bowld sojer boy!
"You ought to be in the Army," said the sergeant, as he put down his empty tankard, "a fine great body of a man like you. It's the best life there is." "I bean't so sartain as I want to be a sojer. I be a hindependent man." "It's a good life for a healthy man," went on the sergeant. "We'll talk it over," and he ordered another drink apiece.
Me nevvew, Terry Donahue, has sint me a letther tellin' me all about it." "How shud he know?" Mr. Hennessy asked. "How shud he know, is it?" Mr. Dooley demanded warmly. "How shudden't he know? Isn't he a sojer in th' ar-rmy?
And he hasn't been tellin' it; he've written it, here in pen and ink. He've cut and run to take the King's shilling and be a sojer: and if I can't overtake him before he gets to Plymouth Citadel the deed will he done, and the Frenchies will knock him upon the head and I shall be without a roof to cover me. Get me my shawl and bonnet."
As they were going up the valley they saw the flying figure of a man on horseback coming toward them. As he approached, they saw that he was a cavalryman. "Hello, what's up?" said Bud. "I never see a sojer goin' so fast, except there was somethin' doin'." A few minutes later the soldier rode up to them. He proved to be a sergeant of cavalry.
Hunt's brother offered back half the money; offered it! why, he tried to force it on the fellow, and couldn't. His master wouldn't let him buy himself and his wife, I suspect, out of sheer cussedness, and he hadn't any other use for money, he said. Besides, he didn't want to take, and wouldn't take, anything that looked like pay for doing aught for a 'Linkum sojer, alive or dead.
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