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"Then keep it bottled up," rejoined Champe, coolly, as they turned into the drive at Chericoke. In Dan's room they found Big Abel stretched before the fire asleep; and as the young men came in, he sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Hi! young Marsters, hit's ter-morrow!" he exclaimed. "To-morrow! I wish it were to-morrow," responded Dan, cheerfully. "The fire makes my head spin like a top.
"I wish you would," said Jerry; "and, judge, ef they've lost any, and will let me hev twenty men, I'll fetch every one o' the critters back afore ter-morrow night at this time, or you may call old Jerry a liar, and that's what no man ever done yet, that's sartin." "Do you really think it can be done, Jerry?" "I'm sartin of it," was the confident reply.
It was his first fight, and he did not know that what he looked upon was but the sure result of an easy victory upon the undisciplined ardour of raw troops that the sinews of an army are wrought not by a single trial, but by the strain of prolonged and strenuous endeavour. "I say, do you reckon they'll lemme go home ter-morrow?" inquired a slightly wounded man in the group before him.
Then, as if recalling the superior station of the man he addressed, withdrew it again and remarked: "You're a real gent, you are! Any one'd know you was wot they calls well-connected. Ter-morrow it is, then. We'll be 'ere and grateful for yer 'elp.... Wot's this abaht a murder? Fight was it? I'm 'appy at that sort of thing myself."
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