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"You came into the army to do just as I tell you, and you'll do it. Silence in the ranks," commanded Si. "Humphreys, stand next to Mackall. Scruggs, stand behind Humphreys." "Why do you put one man behind another?" queried Monty Scruggs. "I don't think that's right. Jim's big head'll be forever in my way, so's I can't see anything. Why don't you put us out in one line, like a class in school?
Where are they, and how many of 'em do you want us to count?" asked Monty Scruggs, at which the other boys snickered. They were getting very tired of the drill, and in the humor to nag and balk the drillmaster. Si lost a trifle of his temper, and said: "You're too all-fired smart with your tongue, Scruggs. If you were only half as smart learnin' your business "
He told them they could stay and one of the daughters of the slaves was married in the kitchen of my grandfather's house. After the wedding they set supper for them. Some of the slave owners were very good to their slaves; but some whipped them until they made gashes in their backs and would put salt in the gashes. Story of Uncle George Scruggs, a colored slave: I wuz a slave befo de wa.
"Goodness!" murmured Monty Scruggs, with colorless lips, as the regiment came into line and moved forward to the battery's line of caissons at the bottom of the hill. "I'm so glad I didn't enlist in the artillery. I don't see how anybody up there can live a minute." "Yes, it looks like as if those artillery boys are earnin' their $13 a month about every second of their lives," remarked Shorty.
"Seems so to me," answered Alf. "Seems to me there was just millions of 'em, and we only got away with a little passel, in spite of all that shootin'. Why, when we come out on the ridge the valley down there seemed fuller of 'em than it was at first." "We oughtn't to get too far away from our guns," said Monty Scruggs.
"RUSSELL, that ain't going to heal without a A scar," Alf Russell consoled himself, as he studied his hurt with a little round pocket looking-glass, a screen of bushes concealing him from his unappreciative comrades. "It's more than Monty Scruggs nor Harry Joslyn nor Sandy Baker'll have to show for the fight. It's even more than Gid Mackall has, even though he is knocked out.
"Tell me, am I seein' things Bill Scruggs? Is it the State Militia dropped down on us? Is there a war on?" Mr. Witherspoon, who was of course in uniform, stepped to the front and made the old fellow a military salute that must have gone far toward soothing his ruffled feelings. "We're sorry if we've intruded on your ground, sir," he said in that convincing voice of his.
"Might I inquire," asked Monty Scruggs, as he came up, wiped his face and sat down on a rock, "whether this is what you'd call a forced march, or merely a free-will trial trot for a record." "Neither," answered Si. "It's only a common, straight, every-day march out into the country. You kin count upon one a day like this for the rest o' your natural lives I mean your service.
The woods looked totally different, under the bright Spring sunshine, from what they had seemed in the chill, wet blackness of the previous night. Buds were bursting and birds singing, and all nature seemed very blithe and inspiring. "Gracious, what a difference daylight makes in the woods," murmured Monty Scruggs. "Tain't a bit like Hohenlinden.
Pitch in, now, and help me. First, let's get the names of these kids on the roll. Humphreys we've got two other Humphreys, so you'll answer to Humphreys, 3d. "But I don't want to be with the Humphreys, sir," broke in Jim. "Me and Monty Scruggs " "Hold your tongue," said the Orderly sharply. "Don't interrupt me. If you speak when you're spoken to you'll do all the talking expected of you.
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