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Updated: June 10, 2025
"How do ye like et?" "Oh, only so-so, Zeke. They're too strict ter suit me. I don't like ter hev ter come an' go just ez sumbuddy tells me, do you?" "No, I don't. But when er feller enters the army, that's jest whut he hez ter do." "Yes, thet's so. Well, I guess I'll git used ter et." "I'll be glad when we git inter a bettle with the rebels, Lem, won't you?" "Yes, I guess so."
'Course Ah hez a right to use mah waggin-team ef Ah likes, but Carew is strick and might get on his high-boss ef he learned Ah sent two of his men on an errent. "I was so sure no one would ever know we rode the horses if he would only loan them to us, that I agreed to anything.
"Reloadin' his rifle, Jim Beaupoint rode slowly to whar Hez Calvern was lyin', when suddenly, from a clump o' bushes close by, there come a rifle shot, an' the rider got the bullet in his chest. Befo' fallin' from the saddle, however, the young fellow fired at the bushes from which smoke was driftin', an' a shrill scream told him that the sharpshooter was a woman."
But when she's developing a habit o' holdin' FOUR aces when somebody else hez TWO, who don't like to let on because it's Prosper's old mother it's gettin' rough! And dangerous too, gentlemen, if there happened to be an outsider in, or one of the boys should kick.
Ef an accident happens on land, thar you are, but ef an accident happens on the water, whar are you?" "What I need most is a pair o' kid gloves," said Shif'less Sol. "I've got purty tough hands, but I think them oars hez took all the skin off the inside o' 'em." "What we all need most," said Henry, "is shelter. We are soaked through and through, and we are stiff with bruises and exertion.
She's got too much grit and sabe for that, unless that drummer hez caught up with her and unloaded his yarn about that kyard." They were the last words the men spoke.
"You kin bet your whole pile on what this Mrs. Capting Baxter ez used to be French Inez of New Orleans hez told ye. Ye kin take everything she's unloaded. And it's only doin' the square thing to her to say, she hain't done it out o' no cussedness, but just to satisfy herself, now she's a married woman and past such foolishness. But that ain't neither here nor there.
"I shorely do, an' I do more than think, I know. The cannon that them Injuns an' renegades had hez been sunk.
Shifting his quid of tobacco to the other side of the mouth and expectorating across half the room into the chimney place he continued, reflectively: "By gosh, I don' blame him, nuther. It muss come kinder tough fer a feller ez hez lorded it over Stockbridge fer nigh twenty year tew git put daown afore the hull village the way Perez put him daown Tuesday.
"'T ain't fer a Continental officer ter injure them cairn ginooine Whigs," chimed in Hennion, "an' only swore an oath cuz it seemed bestest jest then." "If you don't want those papers known, stop persecuting the Merediths." "So thet gal 's caught yer, too, hez she? Look aout fer them. They'll use yer ter save theer lands, an' then they'll send yer ter right-abaout, like they done with my Phil.
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