provo-marshal's

Updated: May 4, 2025

You stay here, on the chance o' them comin' back, and I'll take a circle around there to the left and look for 'em. If I don't find 'em I'll come back and we'll go down to the Provo-Marshal's." "Goodness, I'd rather be shot than go back to the rijimint without 'em," groaned Si. "How kin I ever face the Colonel and the rest o' the boys?"

John McElroy - Si Klegg, Book 6 : Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign

Ye say ye stopped there and talked to that peacock at the Provo-Marshal's quarters, and we thought yez was gittin' instructions. We sint these rookies out, who we thought nobody'd know, to give you a little fairy story about the rijimint being gone, to throw you off the scint, until we could finish the liquor."

John McElroy - Si Klegg, Book 6 : Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign