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The sergeant's hand went up to his cap with an involuntary jerk; he fell back from the rein he had been holding. Billy almost dropped his musket. He gasped weakly, then grew burning red. Jackson threw down the match. "Good! good! I see that I can trust my pickets. What is the young man named?" "Billy Maydew, sir. Company A, 65th Virginia." "Good! good!
At the noise of the stick he started violently. "Who did that? Oh, I see, and I might have known it! I'll report you for extra duty " "Report ahead," said Billy, under his breath. Coffin halted. "What was that you said, Maydew?" "I didn't speak to you sir." "Well, you'll speak to me now. What was it you said then?" He came nearer, his arm thrown up, though but in an angry gesture.
There in the sunlight the hedgerows ran golden and brown away from the clouds of trailing train smoke. Young Maydew shook his head at their beauty. "The country's still very blind," he said. "Awful pity you've given up your huntin'." Mrs.
The owner of the hand swung himself again into the saddle from which Dave Maydew had plucked him. Remounted, he made a downward thrust with his sabre. Dave, keeping warily out of reach of the horse's lashing heels, struck up the arm with his bayonet. The sabre clattered to the ground; with an oath the man an officer drew a revolver.
The men entered and found it dusk and warm, smelling of horses, the river, fifteen feet below, showing through the cracks between the heavy logs of the floor. The marching feet sounded hollowly, voices reverberated. "Just like our bridge told you 'twas Ain't it like, Billy Maydew?" "It air," said Billy. "I air certainly glad that we air a-crossing on a bridge.
Bellew took his hand, and leaned back again in her corner. She was rather paler than usual, but it became her, and Captain Maydew thought he had never seen so charming a creature. "Got a week's leave, thank goodness. Most awf'ly slow time of year. Cubbin's pretty well over, an' we don't open till the first." He turned to the window.
The tears rushed into her eyes, but at a noise as of opening doors or windows at the house, terror mastered her again, and she hurried on to hide herself from the dawning light, which was beginning to increase, as she crossed the park, on turf dank with Maydew, and plunged deep into the thick woods beyond, causing many a twittering cry of wondering birds.
"It air not any more important than my orders air! You get down from that thar horse and mark time!" "That is not necessary. Call your officer of guard." "Thank you for the sug-ges-tion," said Billy politely. "And don't you move while I carry it out!" He put his fingers to his lips and whistled shrilly. A sergeant and two men came tumbling out of the darkness. "What is it, Maydew?"
He air 'a petty tyrant. He air that, and Thunder Run don't like that kind. He air not going to tyrannize much longer over Billy Maydew. And don't you be comparing me to Steve Dagg. I ain't like that, and I never was." He lay prone again, insulted, and would not go on with the lesson. Allan took it calmly, made a placating remark or two, and lapsed into a friendly silence.
Let's make a trap'; 'n' when the rail fences all hollered out, 'We're goin' to turn agin you! 'n' when a bit of swamp hollered louder than any, 'Let's suck down Billy Maydew suck down Billy Maydew! 'n' when a lot o' bamboo vines running over cedars, up with 'Hold him fast until you hear a bullet whizzing! 'n' I got to the Shenandoah and there wa'n't no bridge, 'n' the Shenandoah says 'I'd just as soon drown men as look at them! when all them things talked so, I knew just how the critturs feel in the woods; 'n' I ain't so crazy about hunting as I was and I say again this here air a most con-ve-ni-ent bridge."
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