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"They're just cheap bums," Jimmie insisted. "They couldn't kidnap a bird in a cage." The sun was up when the boys reached the camp, and Teddy was getting breakfast. The arrival of Jimmie was hailed with manifestations of joy, as may well be supposed. The boys clustered around him excitedly, and even Uncle Ike, from the corral, sent forth a he-haw greeting.
"Oh, Tom, what shall we do?" He-haw he-yaw he-yaw! Solomon burst out into the most dismal bray ever heard a long-drawn misery-haunted appeal for help, which was prolonged in the most astounding way till it seemed to be a shrill cry. "I don't know," responded Tom, wiping the tears out of his eyes. "Oh, come, I say," said Dick, "it isn't anything to laugh at!"
"Ahoy! what's matter?" came from a couple of hundred yards away; and the lads turned, to see that it was Hickathrift shouting, he and the others having just succeeded in taking up the root to its destination. "Ahoy! Bring the rope," shouted Dick. "He-haw haw haw haw!" shouted the Solemn one dismally, as if to emphasise his young master's order.
"Give it up," says I. "Have you tried the Zoo?" "He-haw!" says he, with the stops all out and a forced draft on. "That's a good one, that is! But we haven't much time and we're looking for Skid. Where do you keep him?" "Say," says I, "we've got a lot of freaks on tap; but we're just out of Skids. Anything else do?" Then she comes to the front. "Don't be such a silly, Dicky!" says she.
"It isn't likely they call him that here. Tell the young man it's Bert Mallory we wish to see." "You're right, Sis, right as usual," says Dick. "It's Mallory we're looking for." "Oh!" says I. "Mister Mallory?" "There now, Dicky!" says she, pokin' him with her elbow and touchin' off another giggle. "Didn't I tell you?" "He-haw!" says Dicky. "Mister Mallory, of course."
A few minutes in cadenced marching and then the command, "Rout step March!" Again the confident, boisterous giant took up its song: "Good-bye Ma, good-bye Pa, Good-bye mule with your old he-haw. I may not know what the war's about But I bet by Gosh I soon find out! O, my sweetheart, don't you fear, I'll bring you a king for a souvenir.
Now there was no one else anywhere near, so he must have been talking to himself. For he could never have expected that donkey to know anything about it. But the donkey thought he was being spoken to, so he wagged his head, and said, "He-haw!" which was a very silly answer indeed, and did not help Gerasimus at all. He seized the donkey by the halter and waited to see what would happen.
"Oh, I sha'n't hurt," said Dick, running all the same; and in passing the yard they closed the gate, for Solomon was safe inside; but as they reached the house, where Mrs Winthorpe stood staring aghast at her son's plight, Solomon burst forth with another dismal, loud complaining: "He-haw!"
"Why under heaven they put such murrain cattle as you in the army I can't tell," he continued with another savage kick in the mule's side. "You only take up room from your betters. You don't fight, you only strut like a turkey-cock, and eat and he-haw. Now, will you git up?" The Aid could not fail to understand now.
I wasn't one of the coaches, you know, and I haven't kept the run of the team for the last year or two. But I'm glad to see the Great Skid. How the deuce does he happen to be up here, though?" "He-haw!" says Dicky. "That's rich, that is? Shows how much you know of Corrugated affairs, Bob. Why, man alive, Skid's one of the chaps that's runnin' your old gent's trust.
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