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Updated: June 10, 2025
If we could only bring back the appetite of former years we might find this pie better than the pies of old. The good brother who seems to think the textbooks of his boyhood days were better than the modern ones forgets that along with the old-time textbooks went skating, rabbit-hunting, snowballing, coasting, fishing, sock-up, bull-pen, two-old-cat, townball, and shinny-on-the-ice.
The company had gathered about the bull-pen, pressing closely against the barrier, that they might lose no part of the show.
"The k. o. has detailed me to bring in the bodies of the two men who were killed," he informed me. "He said that you were going along, and so I thought I'd hunt you up and tell you that we'll start about seven in the morning." "I'll be ready," I assured him. "Come on over to the bull-pen," he invited cordially. "Sorry we haven't a canteen in connection, but it's more comfortable over there.
Army trucks were moving on parallel roads or trails. Ahead of them appeared high fences of barbed wire. It looked as though the travelers had come upon a huge bull-pen. There were gates, guarded by military sentries not of the Ninety-ninth. Through these gates and past the barbed wire filed the marching men. Further ahead loomed the sheds of a great pier.
The tories were all handcuffed two and two, and confined together under a sentinel, in what was called a `bull-pen', made of pine trees, cut down so judgmatically as to form, by their fall, a pen or enclosure. It was Smith's fortune to have for his yoke-fellow a poor sickly creature of a tory, who, though hardly able to go high-low, was prevailed on to desert with him.
The "bull-pen" proved to be a combination reading and lounging-room for the troopers not on duty. My self-appointed host, whose name was Goodell, waved me to a chair, and took one opposite. With his feet cocked up on a window-sill, and a cigarette going, he leaned back in his chair, and our conversation slackened so that I had a chance to observe my surroundings.
"So I wagged my legs for the house and trotted Aleck down to the bull-pen. "'Friend of yours there, I told him. "'That so? says he. 'Who is it? "'Lady, I says, kind of gay, thinkin' he'd be pleased. "He stopped in his tracks. Then I remembered who I was talkin' to. "'Come along, here, now! says I, and nailed him by the neck.
It does not appeal to the working-man who has had his head broken by a policeman's club, his union treasury bankrupted by a court decision, or his job taken away from him by a labour-saving invention. Nor does the Constitution of the United States appear so glorious and constitutional to the working-man who has experienced a bull-pen or been unconstitutionally deported from Colorado.
And thus, by the time Pewee and Riley arrived, half the larger boys in the school were in the game, and there were not enough left to make a good game of bull-pen. At noon, the new game drew the attention of the boys again, and Riley and Pewee tried in vain to coax them away. "Oh, I say, come on, fellows!" Riley would say. "Come let's play something worth playing."
Into camp Dick marched the soldier, then over toward the buildings of the Ninety-ninth, and thence along to the bull-pen. "Sergeant of the guard!" Prescott called briskly, and that non-commissioned officer appeared. "Take charge of Private Mock as a prisoner, charged with being absent from camp without leave or pass," Dick ordered.
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