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Updated: May 24, 2025
"Every afternoon and me not hearing a word of it!" "If you could only say a word to him," besought Winona. "Coming from you it might have an influence for good." "I will, I will!" promised Sharon, fervently, and there was a gleam of honest determination in his quick old eyes. That very afternoon, in Pegleg McCarron's shed, he said words to Wilbur that might have an influence for good.
And then the whole regiment came flocking home, and there was joy and gladness unspeakable in many a little army household and some modification thereof in others, and presently Devers and his troop arrived after a long, long march, and Devers began giving "Pegleg" something more to think about.
Quite astonishingly it appeared then that when he said the store he was meaning the low saloon of Pegleg McCarron; that he did road work every morning and wanted quick young lads to give him a work-out with the gloves in the afternoon, because even dubs was better than shadow boxing or just punching the bag all the time. If they couldn't box-fight they could wrestle.
But somebody better pen dis yer nigger boy up w'en I'm on de town I kin tell you dat." "DEY tells me you done jine de chu'ch," said Uncle Remus to Pegleg Charley. "Yes, sir," responded Charley, gravely, "dat's so." "Well, I'm mighty glad er dat," remarked Uncle Remus, with unction. "It's 'bout time dat I wuz spectin' fer ter hear un you in de chain-gang, an', stidder dat, hit's de chu'ch.
Pegleg rolled off her, as inert as a sack of grits, and lay face upward in the path, with his arms wide outspread on the mud.
Herman often found trade dull of an evening now, since many of his old clients would patronize his rival, Pegleg McCarron; for Pegleg was a fervent patriot who declared that all Germans ought to be in hell. Herman greeted the newcomers with troubled cordiality. "Sed down, you boys. What you have? Sasspriller? All right! Mamma, two sassprillers for these young men."
At any rate, he was never heard of afterward. In 1860 a man named McGuire deposited in one of the San Francisco banks several thousand dollars in gold nuggets which he said he obtained near Smith Mountain. He organized a party of six to hunt for the Pegleg Mine.
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