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Bewlah drawed the grewel off the fire, wiped her hands, an' stood lookin' at me a minnet, then she sez, slow an' quiet, but tremblin' a little, as women hev a way er doin', when they've consid'able steam aboard, "'Hiram, other folks think lumberin' has spilt yeou; I don't; they call yeou rough an' rewd; I know you've got a real kind heart fer them as knows haow tew find it.
From the ruck of bleeding and prostrate horses, the men of the infantry could see one animal raising its stricken body with its fore legs, and turning its nose with mystic and profound eloquence toward the sky. Some comrades joked Collins about his thirst. "Well, if yeh want a drink so bad, why don't yeh go git it?" "Well, I will in a minnet, if yeh don't shut up!"
He turned then to whisper, "You wait here, will yeh?" His face was red with determination. "Well, hol' on a minnet!" said Peter. "You I we'd better " "No," said the major. "You wait here." He went stealthily into the thickets. Peter watched him until he grew to be a vague, slow-moving shadow. From time to time he could hear the leaves crackle and twigs snap under the major's awkward tread.
"Now, look a' here, I don't know any more about this than you do," he told them forcibly. "All that I know is that there's a rebel over in Smith's woods, an' all I know is that I'm agoin' after 'im." "But hol' on a minnet," said old Peter. "How do yeh know he's a rebel?" "I know he is!" cried the major. "Don't yeh think I know what a rebel is?"
"Now, look a' here, I don't know any more about this than you do," he told them forcibly. "All that I know is that there's a rebel over in Smith's woods, an' all I know is that I'm agoin' after 'im." "But hol' on a minnet," said old Peter. "How do yeh know he's a rebel?" "I know he is!" cried the major. "Don't yeh think I know what a rebel is?"
From the ruck of bleeding and prostrate horses, the men of the infantry could see one animal raising its stricken body with its fore legs, and turning its nose with mystic and profound eloquence toward the sky. Some comrades joked Collins about his thirst. "Well, if yeh want a drink so bad, why don't yeh go git it!" "Well, I will in a minnet, if yeh don't shut up!"
With the fears still upon their agitated faces, they turned to berate the one who had shrieked. "My! what a goose you are, Sallie! Why, it took my breath away. Goodness sakes, don't holler like that again!" "Hol' on a minnet!" Peter Witheby was crying to the major, as the latter, full of the importance and dignity of his position as protector of Migglesville, paced forward swiftly.
"My husband is here, but-but-we were just going to eat supper, and " "Supper can wait a few minutes, wife," said Mr. Dare. "I'll see what neighbor Boggs wants. Won't you come in, Abe?" "No, we wanter see ye out here, Dare" replied the Tory. "Come out uv doors. We won't keep ye but a minnet." "Oh, husband, be careful!" whispered Mrs. Dare in her husband's ear as he passed her. "Don't anger them.
The veteran already felt upon his brow a wreath formed of the flowers of gratitude, and as he strode he was absorbed in planning a calm and self-contained manner of wearing it. "Hol' on a minnet!" piped old Peter in the rear. At last the major, aroused from his dream of triumph, turned about wrathfully. "Well, what?" "Now, look a' here," said Peter. "What 'che goin' t' do?"
At this the assassin, for some reason, appeared to be quite embarrassed. He gazed at the seductive front of the eating place for a moment. Then he started slowly up the street. "Well, good-bye, Willie," he said bravely. For an instant the youth studied the departing figure. Then he called out, "Hol' on a minnet."
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