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Updated: May 15, 2025
"It b'longed to the sutler at the Fort: for yee see, capting, as we left theere for a leetle bit o' a hurry, I couldn't lay my claws on my own ole forage-cap; so I took the hat in its place? an' thet's how I kim by the thing. But heer's a hat perhaps, mister, this heer'll pleeze ye better? Will it, eh?"
Perhaps it was their money he wanted to scoop up, though he said nothing as to that, just, "Now, gents, step up a little closer, pleeze." Then he tilted his hat on the other side of his head, and put one hand across his chest, the middle finger between the buttons of his vest, and all in a very grand way.
"On'y a dhrop, Miss," he repeated piteously, "and av ye pleeze, quick! afore I'm stharved with the cold entoirely." She looked at him intently without lowering her gun. "Who are you?" "Thin, it's the truth I'll tell ye, Miss whisth then!" he said in a half-whisper; "I'm a desarter!" "Then it was YOU that was doggin' us on the Marsh?" "It was the sarjint I was lavin', Miss."
Dicky seemed to be more worried about the ball than about the woodshed, for he whined. "Aw, pleeze, Mis' Miller, have a heart!" You see, "Have a heart!" was an expression he had heard down in the city, and for the last week the boys had been using it every chance they got. Still it didn't work on Mis' Miller, for she only shook her head angrily and took her broom and shouted,
"Pleeze, Mis' Miller, I haven't any money," Dicky was saying, very politely, with his eye on the broom she held in her hand, "I'll pay you tomorrow." "No, you'll settle it now," she told him very cross she was, too, "or I'll tell your mother, and your father'll paddle you in the woodshed." Then she added, "an' you won't get your ball."
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