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"The large wall tents over there on the hill," directed the sergeant-major. "It's a long way to Frederick, but Lord! with that horse " He hesitated for a moment, then spoke up in a courageous, middle-aged, weather-beaten fashion, "I hope you'll have a pleasant ride, lieutenant! I guess I was a little stiffer'n good manners calls for, just at first.
Instead of rushing to the front, the cherry jacket was rapidly dropping back. It was McManus who broke the stunned silence. "In front in ten jumps, hey? He's last in ten jumps, that's what he is: stiffer'n a board! And look where Curry's nigger is, will you?" "To hell with Curry's nigger!" barked Johnson. "Look at the colt! He he can't untrack himself: runs like he was all bound up somehow!
"Run, you egg-sucking hound. "Run, you scald-headed dominie. "Somebody busted a cap in your neighborhood, old white-liver." "Seen the ghost of a dead rebel, Pilgarlic?" "Pull back your eyes, you infernal mulewhacker. A limb'll brush 'em off." "Look at his hair standin' up stiffer'n bristles on a boar's back." "Your mules got more sand 'n you. They're standing where you left 'em."
His fingers were investigating the bullet-hole in his side, and a shade of regret passed over his face. "It's goin' to be stiffer'n hell," he said. "An' it's up to me to get mended an' get out o' here." He crawled out of the hole and went down the hill to his camp. Half an hour later he returned, leading his pack-horse.
Hain't you 'shamed yo'se'f, layin' heah with yer haid lookin' lak a rat's nest, an' yer laigs a-showin'? Daddy Stratton he prayed loudah, Poll she fanned fastah, an' Jane she sniffled an' snuffled harder'n evah, while Sal she jes' lay thah lak a dead corp. I knowed she heard me, though, fur she kindah flickahed her eyeleds, an' then lay stiffer'n evah.
His fingers were investigating the bullet-hole in his side, and a shade of regret passed over his face. "It's goin' to be stiffer'n hell," he said. "An' it's up to me to get mended an' get out o'here." He crawled out of the hole and went down the hill to his camp. Half an hour later he returned, leading his pack-horse. His open shirt disclosed the rude bandages with which he had dressed his wound.
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