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Updated: June 7, 2025
I was cussin' this other piebald pilgarlic from West Point; this other pig headed pickaninny o' the Regular Army; this Brevet-Second Lieutenant o' the Quartermaster's Department, and Aid on the staff o' Gen. Groundhog. You ain't my superior officer, nohow." "Corporal," shouted the Aid to Si, "take this rascal up there on the bank and buck-and-gag him. Do it at once."
He thought of going back and fulfilling his long-delayed purpose of thrashing Groundhog, but on reflection this scarcely commended itself as a fitting prelude. He heard voices approaching one sympathetic and encouraging, the other weak, pain-breathing, almost despairing.
You'll let me put my thumb on your throat?" "Yes, and I'll give you the canteen now and the money after we find the boys." "All right. Go ahead. Drink quick, for you must go on the jump, or you'll lose your boys." Shorty lifted the canteen to his lips and Groundhog clasped his throat with his thumb on Adam's apple.
Groundhog, who was an elderly creature, very fond of sleep in the winter, welcomed the rabbits to his burrow, and there they stayed out of the rain. In the morning the sun was shining brightly, and before very long the water all dried out of the bunnies' underground house, so that they could go back in it.
He lined the boys up in front of the long shelf which served for a table and ordered the keeper: "Now, give each of these boys a good breakfast of ham and eggs and trimmings and I'll settle for it." "Good mornin', Kunnel. When 'd you git down here?" said a voice at his elbow. "Hello, Groundhog, is that you?" said Billings, turning around. "Just the man I wanted to see.
Some way she felt that if he could see the thoroughbred horses in their stalls, could come to know them individually, casually though it might be, he would perhaps catch a glimmer of their beautiful characters. So she asked Mr. Mortimer to go and have a look at her pets. Alan would none of it; he was off to his woodchuck or groundhog.
"Because," whispered the groundhog, looking around as if he was afraid some one would see him, "I might see my shadow again, you know, and that would make winter longer than ever. You know I went out Candlemas Day and I saw it, and it frightened me so I rushed back in here, and I'm not going out again until March 16, which will be just six weeks.
Leaving Si gazing anxiously in every direction for some clew to his missing youngsters, Shorty rushed off in the direction of the sutler's shanties, where instinct told him he was most likely to find the runaways. He ran up against Groundhog. "Where are you goin' in sich a devil of a hurry?" the teamster asked. "Smell a distillery somewhere?" "Hello, Groundhog, is that you? Ain't you dead yit?
Then he goes on: "'I aint built to spare much meat, and the loss of 15 pounds leaves fallow lots in mi cloze. But it will grow it all back on me agin mitey quick, as soon as we kin hav another protracted meetin' with the Commissary Department. "Did you ever hear sich vulgarity?" Groundhog groaned.
They did not make a sound, but somehow the other four understood, with electric suddenness, and their legs set like posts. "Jest as I expected," said Groundhog, with a grunt of satisfaction; "they've balked for all day, an' you can't git 'em to move another foot if you killed 'em. They're as solid as if they'd growed there."
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