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"They're scattered all around here, coverin' acres an' acres, just like dead leaves shook by a storm from the trees. But j'in us, Yank. You can't do nothin' in the darkness all by yourself. We're Johnny Rebs, good and true, and I may be shootin' straight at you to-morrow mornin', but I reckon I've got nothin' ag'in you now. We're lookin' for a brother o' mine."
But as they came back up the hill, with a gourd full of spring water for their companion, they were amazed to see a party of blue-coats appear around the bend of the road at a little distance. They dropped the gourd of water, and yelled to the man on guard: "Kill the Yank, an' run for yer life!" and disappeared themselves, in the direction of the spring.
Such gibes often led, despite the officers, to friendly interchange. So, for instance, a toy-boat which bore the significant name of a parasite familiar to both sides made regular trips across the Rappahannock after the dire struggle at Fredericksburg, and promoted international exchange between "Yank" and "Johnny Reb." The daydream of Aristophanes became a sober certainty.
"As I told you, he isn't President Davis," Harry called, "but he's sure, when he's old enough, to be one of his successors." "Bet you a dollar, Johnny Reb, that President Davis has no successor." "Take you, Yank, and I'll collect that bet from you when I ride down Pennsylvania Avenue in my Confederate uniform at the head of the Army of Northern Virginia."
"Dick, you and Dave begin to yank on the door as soon as you see the hot stream trickling on below." Reade made economical use of the water, yet it took considerable pouring to loosen up the door at the sill. "Better go slow with that water," warned Dutcher. "It's the last there is in the place." "Humph!" retorted Tom. "Once we get outside I guess we can dig our way to the spring."
"Ready, Engineer?" asked Arcot. "Ready, Pilot!" replied Morey. "All right just keep your eye on the meters, Dad, as I turn on the system. If the instruments back there don't take care of everything, and you see one flash over the red mark yank open the main circuit. I'll call out what to watch as I turn them on." "Ready son." "Main gyroscopes!"
Him with a snootful an’ somebody yellin’ Reb and Yank. Some men can’t forgit an’ don’t seem to want to. Johnny sure takes it hard bein’ on th’ losin’ side—turned him dirt mean. Now, you kids, you stayin’ in town?" "Sí." Faquita nodded vigorously. "With Tía María." "Then you git there an’ stay clear of Johnny Shannon, sabe? No more trouble." "Sí, Señor Kells.
I wish I had that rascally Yank that shot me," he added, "this wound is very painful." Archie upon hearing this was almost afraid that the beating of his heart, which thumped against his ribs with a noise that frightened him, would certainly reveal to the rebels the fact that the "rascally Yank" was then in their immediate vicinity.
Then, to amuse their leisure, they taught him a Morgan song, and obliged him to dance, fat and fagged as he was, to his own music, while they applauded him with shouts of "Go it, old Yank! Louder!" till their commanding officer ordered them to harness a worn-out crow bait to his wagon, and bring him three wretched jades for the horses he wanted to recover, and let him go.
You can yank it out an' set it afloat, an' before you hardly git your doggin' iron off of it, it'll be snarled up agin in some new place. From the time it's chopped down to the day it gets to Saco, it costs the Comp'ny 'bout ten times its pesky valler as lumber. Now they've sent over to Benson's for a team of horses, an' I bate ye they can't git 'em. I wish i was the boss on this river, Alcestis."
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