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The soldiers' linen I had seen in her arms was piled beside her. In a willow basket, newly woven, I saw a heap of clean, wet shirts and tow-cloth rifle-frocks. She heard me behind her I took care that she should but she made no sign that she had heard or knew that I was there.
"Hello, Catamount Jack," said Elerson, humorously. "Where 'd ye steal the squaw-buckskins? Look at the macaroni, Tim all yellow and purple fringe!" Mount surveyed the riflemen in their suits of brown holland and belted rifle-frocks. "Dave Elerson, you look like a Quakeress in a Dutch jerkin," he observed. "'Tis the nate turrn to yere leg he grudges ye," said Murphy to Elerson.
As I sat thinking at our bush-hut door, the endless lines of wagons were still passing toward Otsego Lake, piled high with stores, and I saw Schott's riflemen filing along in escort, their tow-cloth rifle-frocks wide open to their sweating chests.
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