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Updated: May 5, 2025
His fat hand slapped Bob's shoulder. "The boy was sure there with both hands and feet." "What about June?" demanded Mollie. "Seems to me she wasn't more'n a mile away while you men-folks were skedaddlin' for cover." The fat man's body shook with laughter. "The boys didn't s-stop to make any farewell speeches, tha's a fact.
His musket bounced a trifle from his shoulder at each stride and made his cap feel uncertain upon his head. He could hear the men whisper jerky sentences: "Say what's all this about?" "What th' thunder we skedaddlin' this way fer?" "Billie keep off m' feet. Yeh run like a cow." And the loud soldier's shrill voice could be heard: "What th'devil they in sich a hurry for?"
And he himself had furnished the lily-handed stranger with the information that he had been stigmatized "Em'ly" in the banter of his associates, until he had taken up arms, as it were, to repress this derision. "It takes powerful little ter put ye down, Em'ry," said Roxby, with rallying laughter. "Mam hev sent ye skedaddlin' in no time at all.
Again the negro denied all knowledge of having beheld such a thing. "Ef ah'd done seed anyfing lak dat," he declared; "ah'd hev bin skedaddlin' fer ther hut lak er chicken wif a hungry coon afta' it, yas, sah." Thoroughly convinced that his imagination had played him a trick, Frank did not mention the incident, to his fellow adventurers and soon almost forgot it.
His musket bounced a trifle from his shoulder at each stride and made his cap feel uncertain upon his head. He could hear the men whisper jerky sentences: "Say what's all this about?" "What th' thunder we skedaddlin' this way fer?" "Billie keep off m' feet. Yeh run like a cow." And the loud soldier's shrill voice could be heard: "What th' devil they in sich a hurry for?"
And another pointed a mangled and shaking hand at the passing horsemen. "Oh, hell!" he sneered, "we don't expect anything of the cavalry, but why are them Zouaves skedaddlin'? They fit like wild cats at the river. Halt! you red-legged devils. You're goin' the wrong way!"
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