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They must 'a' laid up at that camp we passed till sometime before daylight seein' that damned Hicks come t' Baker's early this mornin'. An' if they didn't travel very fast t'-day which ain't likely, 'cause they probably figure they're dead safe, and their track don't show a fast gait there's just a chance that we'll hit 'em by dark if we burn the earth.
Day after day he would snatch a few moments after supper to go and look at it. "'Have ye seen the wheat t'-day, Nettie?" he asked one night as he rose from supper. "No, Tim, I ain't had time." "Well, take time now. Le's go look at it." She threw an old hat on her head Tommy's hat and looking almost pretty in her thin, sad way, went out with her husband to the hedge. "Ain't it grand, Nettie?
He continued in a monotonous voice, "I thought mebbe yeh got keeled over. There 's been thunder t' pay t'-day. I was worryin' about it a good deal." The youth still lamented. "Oh, Jim oh, Jim oh, Jim " "Yeh know," said the tall soldier, "I was out there." He made a careful gesture. "An', Lord, what a circus! An', b'jiminey, I got shot I got shot. Yes, b'jiminey, I got shot."
Yeh know there was a boy killed in my comp'ny t'-day that I thought th' world an' all of. Jack was a nice feller. By ginger, it hurt like thunder t' see ol' Jack jest git knocked flat. We was a-standin' purty peaceable fer a spell, 'though there was men runnin' ev'ry way all 'round us, an' while we was a-standin' like that, 'long come a big fat feller.
As they went along, the man questioned the youth and assisted him with the replies like one manipulating the mind of a child. Sometimes he interjected anecdotes. "What reg'ment do yeh b'long teh? Eh? What's that? Th' 304th N' York? Why, what corps is that in? Oh, it is? Why, I thought they wasn't engaged t'-day they 're 'way over in th' center. Oh, they was, eh?
"Ah'm speakin' of a man thet filed on my section in July," he said. "His six months is up t'-day. So Ah reckon he'll hev t' work a new piece of track. For Ah inten' t' hang on t' thet quarter it's goin' t' be worth a pile." The evangelist threw him a swift glance. "What is the name of that man?" he asked. "Ah dunno. Ah clean gone an' f'got it. Ah ought t' wrote it down "
He determined to tell them that he, too, knew what and whom they feared. "Expecting someone, Miss Dallas?" he asked tentatively. The section-boss hastened to answer. "Expectin' nothin'," he snapped. Then, to cut short any further questioning, "Dallas, y' clean forgot them mules t'-day. Lawd help us! y' goin' t' let 'em starve?" The elder girl found her cloak, picked up a bucket and left the room.
Finally the friend returned to his old seat. In a short while the three antagonists could be seen together in an amiable bunch. "Jimmie Rogers ses I'll have t' fight him after th' battle t'-day," announced the friend as he again seated himself. "He ses he don't allow no interferin' in his business. I hate t' see th' boys fightin' 'mong themselves." The youth laughed. "Yer changed a good bit.
Lime sat still till the old man was heard outside calling "Oo-ee, poo-ee" to the pigs in the yard; then he smiled at Marietta, but she said: "He's got on one of his fits, Lime; I don't b'lieve you'd better tackle him t'-day." "Don't you worry; I'll fix him. Come, now, give me a kiss." "Why, you great thing! You took" "I know, but I want you to give 'em to me.
"Yes; I don't know where we'd be t'-day if it hadn't teen f'r Council and his wife." "They're the best people in the world," said the little woman, with a great sob of gratitude. "We'll be in the field on Monday sure," said Haskins, gripping the rail on the fences as if already at the work of the harvest.
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