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He'll treat you white and give you twice as much bounty as you'll git anywhere's else, and he's goin' to keep his regiment back in the fortifications, where there won't be no fightin', and hard marches, and starvation " "But we enlisted to fight and march, and " interjected Harry. "Well, you want a good breakfast just now, more'n anything else, judgin' from appearances.
"Then come to us the queerest thing in that whole curiosity-shop of a ranch. Its name was Alexander Fulton. I reckon Aleck was about twenty-one by the almanac, and anywhere's from three to ninety by the way you figure a man. Aleck stood six foot high as he stood, but if you ran the tape along his curves he was about six-foot-four.
"You won't find a better," he cried, plunging knee-deep through the long grasses. "Anywhere's good in the sun, I say," replied Ivanoff, as from the boat he fetched the vodka, the bread, the cucumbers, and a little packet of hors d'oeuvres. All these he placed on a mossy slope in the shade of the trees, and here he lay down at full length. "Lucullus dines with Lucullus," he said.
An old farmer, who had been leaning on the fence watching our efforts, sagely remarked: "I was afeard your nag would balk on that thar hill; it is little but the worst rise anywhere's about here, and most of us know better'n to attempt it; but I guess you're a stranger." We dined at Lapeer, and by dark made the run of eighteen miles into Flint, where we arrived at eight-thirty.
"There's a pond only a quarter of a mile from here." "I don't know how to fish," said Herbert. "Don't know how to fish? What do you know how to do?" "We don't have any chance in New York." "Say," exclaimed Abner, with sudden interest, "is New York a nice place?" "I wish I was back there. I never shall be happy anywhere's else." "Tell me what you fellows do there.
She's goin' to begin school, soon's town meetin's over an' Moses'll have time to drive her there. Oh, I forget he's broke. Well, she'll go sometime, if the proper clothes come an' things turn out accordin'. But come she must now, an' to oncet, if she's anywhere's hereabout, 'cause I dassent stay a minute more.
I got to talkin' an' forgot I was on my way home when I throwed in with yuh." "Aw, you can 'phone any time. There is street cars running back to town all the time I or you can catch a bus anywhere's along here. I got pinched once for drivin' through here without a tail-light; and twice I've had blowouts right along here. This town's a jinx for me and I want to slip it behind me."
'Of course, agreed Easton, 'everyone knows it. 'You ought to give us a look in at the "Cricketers" some night. There's a lot of decent chaps comes there. 'Yes, I think I will. 'What 'ouse do you usually use? asked Crass after a pause. Easton laughed. 'Well, to tell you the truth I've not used anywhere's lately. Been 'avin too many 'ollerdays.
Jingoss had taken with him his traps, his pelts, his supplies. "That's a good thing," concluded Sam, "a mighty good thing. It shows he ain't much scared. He don't suspect we're anywhere's near him; only that it ain't very healthy to spend the winter in this part of the country. If he'd thought we was close, he wouldn't have lugged along a lot of plunder; he'd be flying mighty light."
It seems to me our wagon master might very well look after his wagons." "That sounds!" commented Jackson. "That sounds! Sam, git on about yer business, er ye kain't travel in the Liberty train nohow! An' don't ye make no break, in the dark especial, fer we kin track ye anywhere's. Ye'll fight fair fer once an' ye'll fight!" By now the group massed about these scenes had begun to relax, to spread.
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