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Updated: May 22, 2025
Bill's idea was to share with those districts the honor of his commissary-generalship; but Captain Wells crushed the plan like a dried puffball. "Yes," he said, with fine sarcasm. "What will them Kanetuckians do then? Don't you know, Gineral Richmond? Why, I'll tell you what they'll do. They'll jest swoop down on Lieutenant Boggs and gobble him up.
Lieutenant Boggs looked embarrassed and strode nearer. "Captain, whar am I goin' to git ten men to face them Kanetuckians?" "Whar air they goin' to git a off'cer to lead 'em, you'd better say," said the captain, severely, fearing that some of the soldiers had heard the question. "If you air afeer'd, suh" and then he saw that no one had heard, and he winked winked with most unmilitary familiarity.
All they would have to do would be to send up after him a man with a rope, and let him drop. That was enough. Lieutenant Boggs called a halt and explained the real purpose of the expedition. "We will wait here till dark," he said, "so them Kanetuckians can't ketch us, whilst we are climbing that tree."
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