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In the words of Mr. Snell, when he came out from behind the watering-trough: "It was a corn-cracker!" A half-hour later Mr. Nute, after sadly completing a canvass of the situation, headed a delegation that visited Cap'n Sproul in the selectman's office, where he sat, pallid with rage, and cursing. "A hundred and seventeen lights of glass," announced Mr.
I'll be gee-whizzly-gol-dusted if he ain't a malleable-iron-double-back-action self-adjusting corn-cracker. And the prayer continued to be punctuated with like admiring and even more sulphurous expletives. It was an incongruous medley. The earnest, reverent prayer, and the earnest, admiring profanity, rendered chaotic one's ideas of religious propriety.
"Yes, captain: I claim to be a gentleman," he continued, when I showed no inclination to ask any questions. "I belong to the legal profession, though I don't work at it now." "I am sure we don't need any law on board of this vessel at the present time," I added. "I do not offer my services in that capacity. I am a native Floridian, a regular corn-cracker," he continued, laughing.
"It was spoken out of a true spirit," said I petulantly, for I could not bear from a common soldier even a tone of disparagement, though I saw the exact meaning of his words. So I added, "You shall read the whole letter, or I will read it to you and you shall judge. On the honour of a gentleman, I will read all of it!" "Poom!" said he, "English fire-eater! corn-cracker!
'Not much Secession about that fellow, Colonel, I remarked, after a while. 'No, he replied, 'he's a North-Carolina 'corn-cracker, one of the meanest specimens of humanity extant. They're as thick as fleas in this part of the State, and about all of them are traitors. 'Traitors to the State, but true to the Union.
"It was spoken out of a true spirit," said I petulantly, for I could not bear from a common soldier even a tone of disparagement, though I saw the exact meaning of his words. So I added, "You shall read the whole letter, or I will read it to you and you shall judge. On the honour of a gentleman, I will read all of it!" "Poom!" said he, "English fire-eater! corn-cracker!
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