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Nolensville is about twelve miles northeast of Franklin and considerably nearer Nashville. As one goes north on the Lewisburg turnpike, after passing Rally Hill and Hurt's Cross-roads, the next important crossing is at Mount Carmel, where the road from Spring Hill to Murfreesboro intersects the turnpike.
"Ah!" sighed the boy, as he began to revive, "that's good! I don't mind now." "But you are hurt. Where's your wound?" said the young private eagerly. "Somewhere just under the shoulder," replied the boy. "'Tain't bleeding much, is it?" "I don't know yet. I won't hurt you more than I can help." "Whatcher going to do?" "Draw off your jacket so that I can see whether the hurt's bad."
The ex-newsboy moved away from the panel and Frank took his place as lookout. "She's crippled, all right," the latter said, after a moment's inspection of their rival, "but I can't see what's the matter." "Course you can't. The hurt's on the inside." "Anyway, she doesn't seem to be able to move. I know she is trying to get off by the way the water changes around her stern."
"Guess I ain't much the wuss for wear," declared Jake Kelly, sitting up. "All's hurt's my feelin's at havin' that there team git away from me like that. The old mare's steady's a clock thought she could hold the young one down, if he did git lively. Dunno now what he took off at. Serves me right for trustin' 'em a minute while I lit up my pipe."
And you figger that no hurt's going to come to your mother from you. There isn't a thing in the world to equal a good woman's loyalty to her mother. Not even the love of a girl for a man. There's a whole heap of women-folk break up their married lives for loyalty to a mother. That's so.
Meanwhile he was rapidly approaching the young girl, and the dog's short bark of recognition was her first intimation of Hurt's presence. Her impulse was to fly, but in a second she saw the absurdity of this course, and yet she was greatly embarrassed, and would rather have been discovered by him at almost any other point of the globe.
It was in his labours on this sham Flying Post, as the original indignantly called it in an appeal to Hurt's sense of honour and justice against the piracy, that Defoe came into collision with the law. His new organ was warmly loyal.
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