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"Now " said Jasper Jay, when they had reached the farmyard "now I'll hide in this oak here and you can hide in that one there." He pointed to a tree a little further from the chicken house than the one where he intended to perch. Naturally, it was not like Jasper Jay to give the best seat to anybody else. "What'll we do then?" Noisy Jake asked. "You see those hens," said Jasper.
Then Jake said, as if he just happened to think of it, "And fought bumblebees." And Frank put in, "And took a shower-bath in the thunder-storm." And Jake said, "And eat mulberries." And Frank put in again, "And built a raft." And Jake said, "And Dave got pulled into the mill-dam." And Frank wound up, "And Jake and I got swept overboard."
Most active in these efforts to incite these men to deeds of desperation, were Col. Steele and Jake Thompson or when he used his assumed name, Col. Carson. The plans of the pirates were as follows, and the writer gives them just as he heard them from the lips of two of the rebel officers who participated in the affair, commanding detachments on board of the "Philo Parsons."
The treatment afforded Jake a never-ending source of amusement and in the evening he went through the house putting his hands upon the backs of the women and demanding money from them, but the dry-goods buyer's wife, who for years had coughed at night, slept peacefully after some weeks of the treatment and the cough did not return while Sam remained in the house. In the house Sam had a standing.
It was worse than we thought." "Huh!" said Weeks, a rough, hard man, who found it hard to get men to work when he needed them for the harvest every summer, on account of his reputation for treating his men badly. "I allus told you you'd have trouble with that baggage afore you got rid of her, Paw! Lucky that she didn't burn you out when you was all asleep I say," said Jake.
"I wonder whether she would see me?" "You're pretty smart, but I suspect this is too delicate a matter for you to meddle with." "I'll be better able to judge if you tell me what you know about it." Jake did so with some hesitation. He knew his sister's talents and that her object was good, but he shrank from betraying his comrade's secrets.
“This is mighty nice for a Rebel,” said one of the men, looking around. “My Jake didn’t get this good care when he was shot at Stone River.” “Too blame nice for a Morgan thief,” mumbled the other. “Shut up,” said the Doctor; “remember what Miss Joyce has done for our boys. Worked her fingers off for them. This man, or rather boy, for he can’t be over twenty, was brought to her door.
And as for love, Jake loved everybody and everybody had found it out. If anybody in the community wanted a favor done them, all that was necessary was to mistreat Benton and he would do them a favor. He had also developed into quite a preacher.
"That's it, Jake," he said to himself, turning to his papers; "you talk too much. If a man prints a thing, and nobody knows who printed it, he's safe." "I'm pretty sure, Gran'pa Jim," said Mary Louise that evening, "that I've trailed the traitor to his lair, and he's none other than Jake Kasker!"
Ashamed to the depths of his being, he hung his head dejectedly. All his life he would be a marked figure because Jake had stamped the manhood out of him, had walked off with his bride of an hour. In the country of the open spaces a man must have sand. Courage is the basis upon which the other virtues are built, the fundamental upon which he is most searchingly judged.
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