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"Spring her, you sodjers, spring her, and take us within heaving distance, or they will get away from us yet. See how the witch is gathering way! Bend your backs, now; lift her! well pulled! another stroke and another that's your sort; now we travel hang it, men, pull, can't ye! heave there, for'ard, and see if you can reach her."
Take a parcel of sodjers, officers and all, and stretch 'em out in a row, and paint 'em, and then engrave 'em, and put it into one of our annuals, and see how folks would larf, and ask, 'What boardin'-school gall did that? Who pulled her up out of standin' corn, and sot her up on eend for an artist? they'd say. "There is nothin' here to take hold on.
"Three months he and the ither twa held the sodjers at bay, till they had them clean wearied oot!" May Girmory explained to her bosom friend, Lizzie McCreath, as they promenaded together; "but to my thinkin' there is little that either of the ither two could do. It would be himsel', Lizzie, that did the thinkin' and the fechtin'. He's the head o' a' the Free Bands, ye ken, Lizzie!"
"Dar's a whole comp'ny of sodjers on hossback comin' down de road!" shouted Cuffy, as soon as he could collect breath enough to speak. "What are they, Cuffy?" demanded Warren. "Sodjers! Mars'r Warren." "Of course they are soldiers; but on which side do they belong?" "Dressed in blue, Mars'r Warren. Mus' be Union." "The force must be one, or both, of your companies, Lieutenant," added Warren.
Can we make the auld place within the bight of the Mays Water? That would be the nearest to the Bothy on the Wild o' Blairmore!" "Maybe," said the Captain, grimly, "but being the nearest is not to say the safest. They will have a cordon o' marines and, what is far worse, maybe blue-jackets on the lookout. Sodjers and Preventives do not matter so muckle.
They found a negro cutting up wood near the house. He told them that it was the home of Colonel Bickford, who had been very badly wounded in the battle on the other side of the river, and had reached his residence the night before. "We want some breakfast," said Deck. "Can't hab it, Mars'r. Missus won't feed no more runaway sodjers," replied the servant.
The schnake was a bit troubled wid indigestion of the brain, and, faix! I was too much for him! Loike the sodjers surrounded by the inimy, Oi cut me way out, and here Oi am." "I don't believe you were swallowed by a snake," protested Mrs. Blossom. "Don't you believe that Jonah swallowed the whale, Aunty?" demanded Felix. "Of course I believe that because it is in the Bible.
They were still in Kentucky, though not more than ten miles from the Tennessee line. When they had ridden a couple of miles, they met half a dozen negroes, with fishing-rods on their shoulders. "Going a-fishing?" asked Deck, as he reined in his steed. "Yes, sar. De sodjers done took all de meat in de country, and all de corn.
This was followed by a general laugh by those who had come to greet Tom and bid him welcome. "Ay, and thou look'st as though thou hasn't weshed for a week. I thought as aa' sodjers kept theirsens clean." "I'll wash right enough when I get home, mother," laughed Tom. "Holloa, Tom. I am glad to see you," and Polly Powell made her way through the crowd.
For at night the sodjers canna see onything, and the Preventives are apt to be lookin' the ither road." "Ye think, then, that we had better try the Burnfoot?" "I think nothing," said Captain Penman, irritably. "I am here to sail my ship according to your orders. But I will take nothing to do with what may happen after you set your foot on shore."
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