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He stopped and shrugged his shoulders, as if it were not for him to say any more. "I see," said Dick bitterly. "You needn't say it, sergeant, but I'll say it for you. General McClellan has been overcome by caution again, and he sees two Johnnies where but one stands." Sergeant Whitley shrugged his shoulders again, but said nothing.
I seed 'em all ez plain ez eber see anybody, en Marse Scoville ride at de haid. Sudden dere was flash, flash, bang, bang, all troo de woods. Marse Scoville fell right off he hoss, he sut'ny did. Den lots ob Johnnies run in de road fore en hind our mens. I see dere wuz no chaince fer me ter do any ting but git away en lil chaince fer dat, fer two Rebs on horses come tarin' arter me.
One of the Johnnies got past my bayonet, and tried to wrestle, but I got my rifle at the port, and pushed it forward into his face, damaging the sights a little and knocking him down. And at that moment another of them jumped on my shoulders from a rock above, sending me sprawling on top of the chap I had just floored.
Seeing I had none to make, she said, "Well, there aren't any boys for Zura to play with, and no tolu this side of San Francisco." Then, brightening with sudden inspiration, she exclaimed, "But I tell you what: wait till I take this basket down to Omoto's home and I'll run right back and make some bear and tiger cookies and gingerbread Johnnies. Children adore them."
And he stopped it by setting a high box, planted with a perfect little hedge of euonymus, on Granville's half of the top of the party wall. And he and Violet hid behind the window curtains all one Saturday afternoon, and watched "the poor johnnies being sold." There was no end to the fun he was getting out of Granville.
"Consequently, it wasn't until some days after the Relief a bare hour or two before the Division Irregular Horse and Baraland Rifles, and a company or so of Civilian Johnnies that had made believe they were genuine fightin' Tommies till they couldn't get out of the notion marched out of Gueldersdorp for Frostenberg, that her ladyship got a chance of makin' a clean breast to the Chief.
But confinement is the ruination of some natures, and as year after year went by and his wits broke themselves on a stone wall, he grew into a very different man from the handy lad the Johnnies had taken prisoner. One thing he never gave up, and that was his pluck; and he had plenty of use for it when, after seven years, his chance came.
All this I detected at a glance, but ere I had time to speak: "You can't tell me that tale, Ma!" cried Harley. "I believe 'e was smokin' in 'ere when we knocked." The woman shrugged her fat shoulders. "No, hab," she repeated. "You two johnnies clear out. Let me sleep." But as I turned to her, beneath the nonchalant manner I could detect a great uneasiness; and in her dark eyes there was fear.
"I know places where sojers wouldn't find that hoss in a thousand years. What do you say to that, Kerins?" "Good as fur as it goes," replied Kerins, "but it don't go fur enough by a long shot. The Yanks whipped the Johnnies in a big battle at Mill Spring. Me an' my pardners have been hangin' 'roun' in the woods, seein' what would happen.
"Thank God you haven't fallen, and that I've found you!" exclaimed Dick. "I don't know whether you're so lucky after all," said Warner. "The Johnnies have been mowing us down. They dropped on us so suddenly this morning that they must have been sleeping in the same bed with us last night, and we didn't know it. I hear that we're routed nearly everywhere except here and where Sherman stands.
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