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Updated: May 4, 2025
I hain't no Solomon, nor yit among the prophets; but, mark my word, in twenty year from now, this'll be the gairden spot o' creation. A clock-tinkah frum Connecticut, whut wuz heah last spring, got sortah riled at us, an' said we Kaintucks wuz ez full o' brag ez ef we wuz fust cousins to the king of England; but, Lawd! hain't we got reason to brag?
"'Drot me if I know a better way than to jump slick aboard her, returned Desborough musingly; 'forty genuine Kaintucks ought to swallow her up, crew and all. "'I guess they would, returned his companion, 'but they are not Kaintucks, but only rig'lars; and then agin if they are discovered one spry cannon shot might sink her; and if the eagles go to the bottom, we shall lose our fiftieth.
"Major Forbes ought to be able to furnish Cousin Merry with safe conduct on that side; we could have the General take care of it from this end. Then she could take him home with her when he was able to travel." "You write the letter fast. The Kaintucks are makin' tracks today " Drew swung into the saddle, and they headed back to camp.
"'Drot me if I know a better way than to jump slick aboard her, returned Desborough musingly; 'forty genuine Kaintucks ought to swallow her up, crew and all. "'I guess they would, returned his companion, 'but they are not Kaintucks, but only rig'lars; and then agin if they are discovered one spry cannon shot might sink her; and if the eagles go to the bottom, we shall lose our fiftieth.
"'Sech deescriptions, remarks Enright with emotion an' drawin' the back of his hand across his eyes, 'brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heap like you Kaintucks, down our way. We was a roode, exyooberant outfit; but manly an' sincere.
Anyway, theah warn't much left of our old outfit, an' this heah Forrest is headin' up a sassy bunch. So I'm glad you did find you a general to sling some weight an' git us into his scouts jus' 'cause he knew your grandpappy. Kaintucks stick together...." There was a second of silence through which they could both hear the faint sounds of life from the stockade.
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