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Updated: May 25, 2025
"'I have a piece of advice for you, Mr. Jones, he says. His voice ain't cheerful neither. It goes right into my gizzard. I turns and looks at him. 'Keep that horse blistered from now on! says the colonel. "Some ginnies is in the weighin'-room under the stand, 'n' hears it all. That's how I gets my name." "Hello, ole Four Eyes!" was the semi-affectionate greeting of Blister Jones.
They had known each other years, these two, and it had been "Armstrong" and "Gordon" when they addressed each other, or "ole man" when Gordon lapsed into the semi-affectionate. To the adjutant's Southern sense of military propriety "ole man" was still possible. "Armstrong" would be a soldierly solecism. "I am to see the General before noon," said Armstrong gravely, "and it's time I started.
It was a semi-patronizing, semi-affectionate letter with a great many underlined words and superlative adjectives and intended to convey the impression that he was a mighty lucky chap to have married a fairy princess who would spend her ducats in rigging up an uncomfortable moth-eaten villa of the days of kingdom come.
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