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That night about midnight, an alarm was given that the Yankees were advancing. They would only have to run about twenty yards before they would be in our works. We were ordered to "shoot." Every man was hallooing at the top of his voice, "Shoot, shoot, tee, shoot, shootee."
"They stickee into me, they stickee into me!" shouted poor Hamed, "if you not doee what they ask." "What is it?" inquired Jack, who continued advancing towards the Arabs. "Dey let goee if not shootee," answered Hamed.
"'P'raps, says I, 'but you won't be in condition to spend it for some time. He rolled his eye off'n me, and at that instant Mary Ann, the faithfullest gun that ever stood between me and a gentleman whose intentions weren't good, appeared upon the scene. "'Don'tee shootee, Sclaggsee! he screeches.
"We'll go forward, Herrick," said my companion; and he stepped over the thwarts into the coxswain's place, and I sat by him, watching alternately for birds, junks, and creeks, up which the latter might lie. "Begin shootee soon," said Ching rather anxiously. "Why?" "Velly muchee sail boat behind think why we come."
He was writhing with pain, and the blood was oozing through his clothes in fifty places. "Ha, ha!" shrieked Song. "Me shootee wolf, turnee into man light away. Ha, ha, me allee same plenty smart man, likee magician." "Yes, you're a hot magician," said Bud; "You've made this feller second cousin ter a porous plaster. That's what you've done." "Who is he, Song?" asked Ted. "Me no savvy him.
Song was as proud as a peacock, and wore "the smile that won't come off" as he flitted around the table waiting on every one. "Say, Missee Stella," he said, "Song all samee one cowbloy now, eh? What you sayee?" "Yes, Song, you have certainly followed instructions. You got your wolf that time, sure. How you likee shootee?" "No likee, Missee Stella.
Mebbeso you likee some fried ham and eggs?" said Song, shaking hands with himself and bowing low. "Ham and eggs! No! Positively, no! I'll be turning into a ham and egg if I get any more of it. That's all the cook at the ranch knows how to do. Anything else?" "Yes, missee. Plenty paltlidge, what Misto Ted shootee lesterday. I cookee you some plenty quick."
Ned shuddered at this; and, I confess, so did I. Seeing the effect his gesture had produced, the old chap, smiling affably, proceeded to justify the extreme course he had suggested. "Yang-kei-tze catchee one Chinaman, one piecee shootee chop chop," he argued, on the retaliatory principle, which, of course, held good in war, although no comfort to us at the moment.
Savvy?" "All light. You givee me gun, I shootee wolf plenty. Makee go 'ki-yi' and lun belly fast." Song went away with a grin on his face like a crack in a piece of stale cheese. "Stella, you've solved it. I believe whoever put that message there heard our conversation, and at least they'll hate us a bit worse than before, if that is possible." "Let them bark, the wolves.
"He say very well, you shootee his people, and be no wiser than at first." "The old fellow's got sense in his brains," observed Jack, "and as we can't pay him the dollars till we get back to the ship, the bribe may prevent him from acting treacherously and leading us into an ambush.
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