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You can have one of mine," cried Peace, forgetting wisdom, discretion, everything, in her great pity for this hapless bit of humanity. "You mean it? No, you fool," was the disconcerting reply. "I'm not a fool!" "No, no, not a fool. You jus' fool, joke. You no mean it." "I do, too! Wait a minute till I get it, and see if it fits. You're thinner'n me, but you're about as tall."
"What's the matter, Pete?" asked Shorty, as the boy came up, breathless from his long run. "Rebels out there?" "No," gasped Pete. "I was hunting out there for a deer, or a elk, or a bear, when suddenly I come acrost the queerest kind of an animal. It looked more like a hog than anything else, yet it wasn't a hog, for it was thinner'n a cat.
Best regiment in the Army o' the Cumberland." "You're the feller they call Shorty, of Co. Shorty nodded assent. "I thought I'd seen you somewhere, the moment I laid eyes on you," said the Sergeant in a friendly tone. "But I couldn't place you. You've changed a good deal. You're thinner'n a fishing-rod."
The gang weren't talkin' of nothin' else, so me and Bailey thought we'd come right down." "That's kind of you, I'm sure. Take your things off and set down. No, I'm sorry to disappoint Smalley and the rest, but I'm able to be up and er make my own bed, thank you. So Alpheus thought I looked thin, hey? Well, if I had to live on that soup he sold me, I'd be thinner'n I am now.
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