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Why, they're just the things to take a lady's eye they have almost the fit of a flour-sack and the ladies are fond of flour, aren't they? The whole crowd was waiting, ready to howl at Pinetop's answer, and, sure enough, he raised himself on his elbow, and drawled out in his sing-song tone: 'I say, Sonny, ain't yo' Maw done put you into breeches yit?"
The Christmas smell faded from his nostrils; in its place came the smoke from Pinetop's pipe a faithful friend until the last. Overhead the star was still shining, and to the front he heard a single shot from the hovering cavalry, withdrawing for the night. "God damn this mud!" called a man behind him, as he lurched sideways from the ranks.
After each depression his elastic temperament had sprung upward; the past months had but strengthened him in body as in mind. In the afternoon a gray cloud came up suddenly and the sunshine, after a feeble struggle, was driven from the mountains. As the wind blew in short gusts down the steep road, Dan tightened his coat and looked at Pinetop's knapsack with his unfailing laugh.
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