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'I know what I would do if he was my dog, said Daisy, with great decision 'diet him, and take no notice when he begs at table; I would. I'd begin this very afternoon. 'After tea, Daisy? stipulated Miss Millikin. 'No, was the inflexible answer, 'at tea. It's all for his own good. 'Yes, dear, I'm sure you're right but he has such pretty ways I'm so afraid I shall forget.
Doc, says I, 'can't you suspend hostility on the slavery question long enough to do something for me? "'It ain't been my habit, Doc Millikin answers, 'to do any painless dentistry when I find a Yank cutting an eye-tooth. So the Stars and Stripes ain't lending any marines to shell the huts of the Colombian cannibals, hey?
Poor disappointed greedy dog, how gladly he would have given the tail between his legs to be safe at home in the drawing-room with Miss Millikin and Daisy! How little he had bargained for such a terrible trip as this!
"Say you can imagine how I felt me to be shot in two weeks and my only hope for help being in a government that's been dead so long that it isn't even remembered except on Decoration Day and when Joe Wheeler signs the voucher for his pay-check. But it was all there was in sight; and somehow I thought Doc Millikin had something up his old alpaca sleeve that wasn't all foolishness.
I don't mean any disrespect to your Confederate States, but I can't help feeling that my chances of being pulled out of this scrape was decidedly weakened when General Lee surrendered. "'It's your only chance, said Doc; 'don't quarrel with it. What did your own country do for you? "It was only two days before the morning I was to be shot, when Doc Millikin came around again.
"'Man! says I, sitting down hard 'twelve thousand how will I ever who could have where did the money come from? "'Yazoo City, says Doc Millikin: 'I've got a little saved up there. Two barrels full. It looks good to these Colombians. 'Twas Confederate money, every dollar of it. Now do you see why you'd better leave before they try to pass some of it on an expert? "'I do, says I.
But you can try, my dear. The following afternoon Miss Millikin entrusted herself and Don to Daisy's driving, not without some nervous misgivings. 'You're quite sure you can manage him, Daisy? she said. 'If not, we can take John.
'One good thing, Aunt Sophy, said Daisy complacently one evening, a little later, 'I've quite cured Don of being troublesome at meals! 'He couldn't be troublesome if he tried, dear, said Miss Millikin with mild reproof; 'but I must say you have succeeded quite wonderfully how did you do it?
Straight as an arrow's flight they came, heedless of the fact that their course was along the western edge of the Indian village and barely two hundred yards away. "My God, fellers, it's little Millikin!" cried an excited trooper. "Ride wide, you young idiot!" yelled another, but all to no purpose.
'I'm afraid he's cross with me, she said; 'you try, Aunt Sophy. Aunt Sophy tried, but with no better success, though Don wagged his tail feebly to express that he was not actuated by any personal feeling in the matter he had no appetite, that was all. 'Daisy, said Miss Millikin, with something more like anger than she generally showed, 'I was very wrong to listen to you about the diet.
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