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This feller come in then," he indicated Lee. "He hollered sumphin' an' started in t' chase me . . . so I beat it up inta th' loft agin'." He shivered. "'T'was cold up ther I well-nigh froze," he whined. The sergeant exhausted his no mean powers of exhortation. It was all in vain. The hobo protested that he had neither seen nor heard anyone else taking out, or bringing in, a horse during the night.
"I gave him a cup of coffee an' sumphin' t' eat he was that cold, poor feller an' I arst him how his face come t' be in such a state. He said sumphin 'bout it bein' so cold up in th' loft he come down amongst th' horses 'bout midnight t' get warmed up.
They was a-talkin' all excited-like 'bout a fight, or sumphin'. They was a-hollerin', 'Beat it, Larry! beat it! t' somewun, an' I heered some feller say: 'All right! give us my saddle! an' then it sounded like as if a horse was bein' taken out. I didn't heer no more after that went t' sleep. I 'member comin' down 'bout th' middle o' th' night t' git a drink at th' trough.
He launched into a lurid account of a border hill-scuffle that his regiment had been engaged in relating all its ghastly details with great gusto. "Cleared me lance-point ten times that d'y," he remarked laconically. "Flint was aour Orf'cer Commandin' Old 'Doolally Flint' 'ard old 'ranker' 'e wos. 'E'd worked us sumphin' crool that week. Night marches an' wot not.