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"All done, as in der duty bound, captain; and six of my men said they would be here this evening." "Indeed! there will be almost enough of us, if your six recruits all get in, to make a pounce upon this nest of vipers to-night Let's see; six you, myself, and Captain Coffin, and " "And der Bart, if he comes; ditter don't you expect him along here to-night?" "I do.
I long to see it all wrought together, for I don't know a tenth of them men or officers not even our colonel." "Herrick? Well, I can't der quite say I should know him now; but he is a ditter go-ahead fellow, who loves the smell of gunpowder nearly as well as Seth Warner himself, whose pupil he is in the trade.
"As I thought," whispered Dunning, putting his mouth close to the ear of the other: "the head ones are ditter suspicious, and watchful; but we must try what can be done at least to find the spot where they've put the gals. There's a ditter old shanty I used to camp in, about fifty yards ahead; and as that is probably the best they've got, I've been thinking they may have cooped 'em in there.
"Amen!" was the deep and general response of the company. "Mr. Dunning will now be heard," said the chairman, motioning to the former to come forward. "Ditter well, Captain der ditter Mr. Moderator, I mean.
"Der der ditter " cried the confused hunter, rising hurriedly to his feet, and lifting his cap, in a tremor of respectful deprecation, before the general, while his tongue began to trip and fly in the vain attempt to get out an apology "der der ditter ditter ditter "
"Der well, having crept along near the edge of the pond within ten or twelve rods of their camp, I was lying in the bushes for discoveries; when ditter one of 'em their leader, I suppose came down to the pond, for observation, likely; and, while peering up and down the shore, a gust of wind blew his hat off into the water.
So now, Barty Burt," he continued, going up to the other, who stood by the fire, kicking the fore-stick with his usual air of indifference; "come forward, and tell the meeting all you have der seen and heard, in the ditter camp of the Philistines."
"Yes, yes, we all know that, I suppose; but where do the purchasers of these estates get the money to buy with?" rejoined the former. "I never ditter catechized them about it," said the hunter, evasively. "Nor I," remarked Piper; "but I have lately heard a curious story about the matter.
Moderator, that his honor be der ditter invited to take up lodgings with us in the Court House to-night, so that, if the enemy comes," he added, imitating the manner of the judge, as described by Bart, "he can assist us to ditter 'temporize temporize till' "
"There!" exclaimed Dunning, as the constable began to cry the sale in the manner we have just described "there, that is ditter Fitch; he is at it! All ready, boys? You, Piper and Bart, with your vials of oil of vitriol in your sleeves, ready to uncork on to their ditter tails?" "Ay, ay!" "And your ditter snuff to throw into their eyes?" "Yes, that, too."
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