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Her an' me got 'em both alike to the same store in Rockville. You was so changed, she said she couldn't hardly believe it was you at all." "Sometimes I wonder myself if it is," said Maw grimly. "Well, 's I was sayin', it was a grand funeral. None better! They even had engraved invites, over a hundred printed and they had folks from all over the state.
They'd failed in the holdup of the Rockville stage last spring and it was about time to hear from them the road after you passed Plymouth was pretty lonesome. Jim Bailey snorted contemptuously and spat over the wheel he guessed Knapp and Garland weren't liable to bother him. After this the conversation dropped.
If it is ascertained that the enemy has but a small force north of the Potomac, then push south the main force, detaching, under a competent commander, a sufficient force to look after the raiders and drive them to their homes. In detaching such a force, the brigade of cavalry now en route from Washington via Rockville may be taken into account.
He was a man of many noble qualities. I knew him personally, for I had lived with him one winter when I attended school in Rockville. I felt it a great personal loss, as well as a loss to the regiment when he died. I desire to express myself at some length relative to this good man who gave his life for our country's cause fifty years ago about March 30th, 1863.
A stormy December evening had set in when he chanced to be a guest of the Rockville Hotel.... At midnight, when he was about to retire, he was a little surprized however by a tap on his door, followed by the presence of Mistress Peg Moffat, heiress, and landlady of Rockville Hotel. Mr. Hamlin, despite his previous defense of Peg, had no liking for her.
At the first meeting of the board they learned their mistake, but it did not worry them much. They had seven votes to two. The council-chamber of the board was a hall large for Rockville situated over the post-office, and only two doors from O'Leary's barroom It was the ordinary village hall, used for everything from a Christmas festival to a prize-fight. In summer it answered for a skating-rink.
On the 5th we were marched about nine miles and camped near Rockville, a flourishing village in Maryland. Our company was placed on picket. The next morning I discovered a cow near by, and persuaded her to allow me to borrow my old quart cup full of her milk. As I drank it I vowed, if ever I got home, I would make a specialty of drinking fresh milk as long as I relished it.
On the morning of this particular Sunday, which was selected because it did not conflict with the services of the Bethesda congregation, two neighbours met in the forks of the public road that leads to Rockville. Each had come from a different direction. One was riding and one was walking; and both were past the middle time of life. "Well met, Brother Roach!" exclaimed the man on horseback.
'But my Lord! woman, he sez, 'that's what I'm talkin' about. If we jack up that bone' trepannin', he called it too 'his brains'd git to be like anybody else's. Told me he wants fur us to let him look after it. Won't cost anything unless we want. They's a hospital to Rockville would tend to it, an' glad to when we git ready.... My poor Tommy!... Don't seem's if it could be true."
The Curly-tops ate their meals, drank cupful after cupful of water, and Trouble did the same, for children seem to get very thirsty when they travel much more so than at home. Then, finally, one afternoon, after a long stop when a new engine was attached to the train, Daddy Martin said: "Well be at Rockville in an hour now. So we'd better begin to get together our things."
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