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He was a fighter from the ground up, and had a desperate "down" on canvassers generally, and on Sloper and Dodge's canvassers in particular. Sloper and Dodge had published a book called "Remarkable Colonials", and Macpherson had written out his own biography for it.
In that instant Dodge was on his feet again, head down and working with great caution. "Time!" The third round ended ere Prescott could put in any finishing touches. Yet, under the skillful hands of his seconds, Dodge came up rather smilingly at the call for the opening of the fourth. There was almost murder in Dodge's eyes now.
"We packed the three carcases into Sonora that night and a butcher named Dodge offered to cut them up and sell the meat without charge to us if we would let him have the bears at his shop. That was the first bear meat ever taken into Sonora, and everybody in the camp wanted a piece. In the morning there was a line of men at Dodge's shop like the crowd waiting at a theatre for Patti tickets.
I gave, therefore, an order to Sherman to halt General G. M. Dodge's command, of about eight thousand men, at Athens, and subsequently directed the latter to arrange his troops along the railroad from Decatur north towards Nashville, and to rebuild that road.
So the instant psychological or otherwise passed. But Fanny Dodge's heavy heart was beating hopefully once more. "If I could only see him alone," she was thinking. "He would explain everything." Her thoughts flew onward to the moment when she would come down stairs once more, cloaked for departure.
I am a conservative, captain and I think an appeal ought to be made to the ballot-boxes before we decide on a measure of so much magnitude." The occasion was too grave for the ordinary pleasantry, and this singular proposition was heard in silence, to Mr. Dodge's great disgust.
Denver sharpened up his steel and put in a round of holes but all that day and the next his uneasiness grew until he jumped at every sound. He felt the hostility of Colonel Dodge's silence more than any that words could express; and when, on the second day, he saw Professor Diffenderfer approaching he stopped his work to watch him.
I didn't see him again till Murfree had led me along opposite of Dodge's cow-shed. As long as the man was making for home I wouldn't disturb him. But right there what I expected happened. He fell in a dead faint. And just then, mighty luckily for me, Gus came up. We couldn't manage him alone, so we called up Jim Dodge out of bed, and he helped us get him into the house.
Jim Fletcher attached himself to the stranger, and now both respect and friendliness tempered his asperity. "Wal, fer want of a better handle I'll call you Dodge," he said. "Dodge's as good as any.... Gents, line up again an' if you can't be friendly, be careful!" Such was Buck Duane's debut in the little outlaw hamlet of Ord. Duane had been three months out of the Nueces country.
Benton was an enlisted man who, for pay, had been accustomed to serving Dodge more or less surreptitiously. "My enlistment ran out last week, sir. So I quit the cavalry to try a three-year term in the hospital corps." Here was Cadet Dodge's opportunity! He bribed Benton to bring him his clothes and to promise silence.
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