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Gid Mackall embraced the opportunity to cook for himself a savory stew with some onions distributed by the Sanitary Commission. Sandy Baker went over his gun, saw that every screw was properly tight, and dropped the tiniest amount of oil on the trigger and the hammer, to ease their working. Pete Skidmore wandered down to the flank of the next regiment to find out if anything new had occurred.
Then they fired a cannon at the sharpshooter and blowed him to pieces just as you'd blow a chippy to pieces with a bullet from a bear-gun." "'Twan't that way at all," said tall, lathy Gid Mackall. "A whole lot of 'em made for the flag together. A charge o' grapeshot come along and blowed the rest away, but Serg't Klegg and Corpril Elliott kep' right on.
You know I shot that rebel at the burnt bridge." "And didn't I shoot one, too?" put in Gid Mackall. "Just as much as you did. They want tall men in the company, don't they, Corpril? Not little runts." "And didn't I watch the crossing down there at the burnt bridge?" pleaded Jim Humphreys. "And git scared to death by a nigger huntin' coons," laughed the others.
"RUSSELL, that ain't going to heal without a A scar," Alf Russell consoled himself, as he studied his hurt with a little round pocket looking-glass, a screen of bushes concealing him from his unappreciative comrades. "It's more than Monty Scruggs nor Harry Joslyn nor Sandy Baker'll have to show for the fight. It's even more than Gid Mackall has, even though he is knocked out.
"This is the company house," he said in his grim way, "and we are, so to speak, public people. We must not give any occasion for silly gossip." "Gossip?" echoed Miss Mackall, raising her eyebrows. "I don't understand you." "Pardon me," said Beattie. "I think you do. Remember," he added with a grim twinkle, "the trader's sister must be like Cæsar's wife, above suspicion."
In the present revision, a number of important corrections, most of them based upon the original MS., have been made by Dr. E.C. Streeter, Mr. L.L. Mackall and others.
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