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'Well, the Left'nant's enthoosy-ism cools off a bit when it begins to rain again like as if some one had turned on the tap o' a waterfall, but he tried to cheer himself remarkin' that most likely 'is Battery was bein' flooded out of their dug-outs. But I could see he was beginnin' to doubt whether the Am.
Many a time the traveller has observed thim flyin' away wid a foal in their jaws, the rapparees! F' all that I do be remarkin' that whin one of the effete European variety is afther ticklin' you in the short hairs you step very free an' flippant, Johnny acushla. A brown horse. Say, Monty, old top, any news? You've got a pal at G.H.Q., haven't you? Monty. Oh, yes, my young brother.
"Ye'll feel mighty queer when ye stand out thar on the spent tan, with jes' yer meat on yer bones, an 'look up an' see yer skin a-hangin' alongside o' the t'other calves, an' sech that ye will!" "An' all the mounting folks will be remarkin' on it, too," said Perkins. Which no doubt they would have done with a lively interest.
Grinnell, nearly overturning her in his turbulent demand for sympathy; then scampered across to the boys, who readily enough stopped their work to examine the wounded member and condole with its wheezing proprietor. "What ye mean, A'gusta?" Grinnell said at length. "Kase I 'lowed I'd cut thar ears? I ain't foolin', Kem meddlin' about remarkin' on our chill'n agin, I'll show 'em."
"My guess is that there's a skirt in the background," says I. "Oh-ho!" says Pinckney. "Touched!" says Larry. Pinckney aims the cigarette case at him, remarkin' savage, "The story or your life. Come, now!" Larry springs that wistful, twisty smile of his and goes on. "It happened here, eight years ago, as I was on my way to No. 6.
He then hove up anchor and put to sea, and as we sailed along the shore, he dropped six black fellows with his rifle, remarkin' that 'that would spoil the trade for the next comers. But, as I was sayin', I'm up to the ways o' these fellows. One o' the laws o' the country is, that every shipwrecked person who happens to be cast ashore, be he dead or alive, is doomed to be roasted and eaten.
"'Dickens he did! I remarked, supposin' it was us to me to do some remarkin'. "'And, says Sammy, 'he's got eight hundred an' sixty-four of them highly improvin' an' intellectooal volumes stored in the barn right now. "'Quite a lib'ry, I says, off-hand like. "'Numerous, but monotonous, says Sam. 'As a lib'ry them books don't give the variety of topics they oughter.
But after we'd been hailed by this lonesome lookin' party in baggy pants and the faded blue yachtin' cap, and we'd let him lead us past the stone foundations where a fine crop of weeds was coming up, and he'd herded us into his shack and was tryin' to spring a blueprint prospectus on us, F. Hallam sort of put his foot in his mouth by remarkin': "So you are Private Ben Riggs, are you?"
"What's dat?" inquired Washington White quickly, nearly dropping some packages he was carrying into the projectile. "What was yo' pleased t' saggasiate, in remarkin' concernin' de untranquility ob the densityness ob stones jumpin' ober a man what is six times high?" he asked. "Do you mean what did I say?" asked Mark solemnly. "Dat's what I done asked yo'," spoke the colored man gravely.
He felt a tug at his arm, and heard a voice saying: "Wake up, Bill! What's the matter with you?" "What was you sayin'?" he asked. "Oh, nothin'," the dark girl answered, with a toss of her head. "I was only remarkin' " "What?" He was afflicted by a sudden spiritual nausea. The transition from Ruth to this had been too abrupt.
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