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Now what does this man do but fall back a couple of hundred yards and then come rushing at me as hard as he could tear, with his nail-keg bent down nearly to his horse's neck and his long spear pointed straight ahead. I saw he meant business, so I was up the tree when he arrived. He allowed that I was his property, the captive of his spear.
"Then sit right down there, colonel, and play me something good," said Johnson, rolling a nail-keg as a seat up to one of the instruments. Lance, thoroughly amused at the comical incongruity of the situation, sat down and rattled off "Yankee Doodle," an air which he judged would be likely to find appreciation with his queer companion.
Silas found a nail-keg and sat down on it across from the nibbling horses, and thought and waited. "He's there by this time," he murmured presently. "Wisht they'd 'a' sent for Liza Ann. No, I guess it's better not. She wouldn't know what t' do, havin' no experience." He debated with himself as to whether he should go back to bed or not. "Couldn't sleep," he concluded.
"The preacher is headed this way. A feller passed 'im on the mountain road ten minutes ago. If you hain't heard John Leach talk you've missed a treat." Mostyn accepted the chair Wartrace drew from within the store, and Webb took a seat near by on an inverted nail-keg. Wartrace was called within, and the banker began to watch the crowd with interest.
The little girl, as an opulent and extravagant customer, was purchasing of the boy, who sat behind a counter improvised from a nail-keg and the front seat, most of the available contents of the wagon, either under their own names or an imaginary one as the moment suggested, and paying for them in the easy and liberal currency of dried beans and bits of paper.
At first a butter-firkin had made him an ample den, but he rapidly passed through the various stages butter-firkin, nail-keg, flour-barrel, oil-barrel and had now to be graded as a good average hogshead Bear, though he was far from filling that big round wooden cavern that formed his latest den.
One mind now directed all the movements of the many armies of the Union, making all the forces at the control of the nation into one mighty trip-hammer, for the crushing of Slavery's conspiracy against Liberty. General Grant recognized in Carleton his old friend whom he first met in Cairo, and whom he had invited to take a nail-keg for a seat.
He arose from the nail-keg upon which he had been sitting, and motioned for the stranger to take his place. As he accepted the mute invitation, Mr. Ricker turned to the company and said: "Gentlemen, shall I intrude upon your time if I relate just one of my adventures?" "Oh, go ahead," said Strout. "It's our rule to let a man talk until we get enough, and then " He raised his right foot, suddenly.
I looked down. Several yards below hung a black mass about as big as a nail-keg. It was a nest of wild bees swarming. "At first I felt curious, interested. Then I noticed that the bunch was rising directly toward me, and I began to feel alarmed, as I remembered their fearful stings. If they attacked me I should be in a bad fix.
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