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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Adams wants me to speak a piece on that great day. I told him I couldn't m' lip's cracked!" and Marty giggled. "But Sally Prentiss is going to recite 'A Psalm of Life, and Peke Ringgold is going to tell us all about 'Bozzar Bozzar is' as though we hadn't been made acquainted with him ever since Hector was a pup. And Hector's a big dog now!"
She was assisted by Rachel Prentiss, a middle-aged negress, the only other woman in the establishment; who took upon herself the out-door work and rougher duties, with the exception of tending the poultry and milking the cows, in which Clarice also engaged. I have not yet described the rest of the party round the fire.
"John," she said, "what is the meaning of this? Don't you know that Mr. Prentiss never allows bonfires? The rubbish is to be carted away, not set on fire." John, apologetic, perturbed, nodded toward the old gentleman. "Yes, miss, I know. I told Mr. McBride, miss " Grandfather McBride turned coldly upon Katrina. "I ordered this bonfire," he said. "But, Grandfather, you know the old orders.
It's all we've seen so far in the way of refreshments." "Thanks," Stan said. "But where am I?" "A Jerry prison. I take it you were one of the boys who bombed the fighter fields. I'm Captain Prentiss." The Britisher smiled. "I'm Stan Wilson. I'm not sure I bombed anything. Is there an Irishman here by the name of O'Malley?" "Right-o. He was dragged in with you." Prentiss got to his feet.
His memory was a marvel to all who knew him. He could repeat till the dawn, extracts from famous speeches he had heard from the lips of Clay, Grundy, Marshall, and Menifee. More than once, I have heard him declaim the wonderful speech of Sargent S. Prentiss delivered almost a half-century before, in the old Harrodsburg Court-house, in defence of Wilkinson for killing three men at the Galt House.
It was undoubtedly at this crisis in our affairs that the division of General Prentiss was captured. I will digress here for a minute to speak of a little incident connected with this disastrous feature of the day that has always impressed me as a pathetic instance of the patriotism and unselfish devotion to the cause that was by no means uncommon among the rank and file of the Union armies.
Prentiss raised his cigar to his lips and looked at Toomey through slightly narrowed lids which might or might not be due to smoke as he asked: "Just what was her offense?" Toomey laughed. "It would be hard to say as to that. She came here under a cloud, and has been under one ever since. She has no antecedents, no blood, and even in a town like Prouty such things count.
Particularly, was this Grandfather McBride's reading of the unspoken word. But Miss Prentiss, herself, thought so otherwise that the situation completely reversed itself. To Miss Prentiss, Grandfather McBride was left absolutely under her eye.
"So she grew up out there in the hills without any friends or social life," Prentiss commented, musingly. "There was always a camptender and a sheepherder or two about," Toomey answered with slurring significance. Prentiss brushed the ashes from his cigar.
It had not been possible for Prentiss to go with Kate to Prouty but he had promised to come as soon as he could arrange his affairs. This had required something like two weeks, and in the interim the excitement attendant upon Kate's return had simmered down.
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