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"You've growed some older, General," said Ephraim, scanning his face with a simple reverence and affection, "but you hain't changed so much as I'd a thought since I saw you whittlin' under a tree beside the Lacy house in the Wilderness." "My duty has changed some," answered the President, quite as simply. He added with a touch of sadness, "I liked those days best, Comrade."
"He's young yet, and Goochland is immortal!" "An' I reckon he gits fo' dollars same as the rest," went on the stranger reflectively, "jest for settin' thar an' whittlin' at that desk. I used to study a good deal about politics fo' I come here, but they air jest a blamed swindle, that's what they air."
"I couldn't say, Bill," the lad replied, "there's no way of knowing, but it's likely enough." "I was thinkin' " the mountain boy began then he broke off suddenly. "I'm mighty partial to whittlin'," he continued irrelevantly. "The best ever," interjected Hamilton's companion. "Yo' ought to have shown him some of your work, Bill."
I was pressed into orderly duty the first day that's when I saw you whittlin' under the tree, and you didn't seem to have no more consarn than if it had been a company drill. Had a cigar then, too. But the second day; May the 6th, I was with the regiment.
I was pressed into orderly duty the first day that's when I saw you whittlin' under the tree, and you didn't seem to have no more consarn than if it had been a company drill. Had a cigar then, too. But the second day; May the 6th, I was with the regiment.
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