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Updated: June 11, 2025
I exclaimed, just then recollecting that to get liquor out of a cask two holes are necessary, the one to serve as a vent-hole to let in the air and the other to let out the liquid. I accordingly set to work and began boring a hole as high as I could reach above the former one. I soon accomplished my task, and as the air rushed in the water from the lower hole rushed out.
Then, nerving himself to the effort, he set off at a little, waddling gait, which shook his fat paunch and made the whole detachment laugh till they cried. "Bravo, bravo, Maloison!" they shouted for his encouragement. He had accomplished about two-thirds of his journey when a long, crimson flame shot forth from the vent-hole.
Soon a dark mass loomed up under the trees; the advance guard, composed of ten men. "Don't go in front of the vent-hole!" repeated Long-legs at intervals. And the first arrivals pointed out the much-dreaded vent-hole to those who came after. At last the main body of the troop arrived, in all two hundred men, each carrying two hundred cartridges.
Something was wrong with the vent-hole of the piece, and one of the gunners asked what business you had with their language; and you said, 'I am a minister of the Lord, and the fellow gave it back very patly, 'I ain't carin' ef you was a minister of state! Then you said, 'No, you would doubtless swear in the presence of an angel. And the fellow with the sponge-staff declared, 'Say, Mister, ef you are that, you are an angel off your feed certain' you were worn to skin and bone then 'an' the rations of manna must be ez skimpy in heaven ez the rations o' bacon down here in Dixie. Ha, ha, ha!"
"Don't go in front of the vent-hole!" shouted his daughter. "There are Prussians in the cellar!" Suddenly the man's tall figure could be seen to the left, standing between two tree trunks. "Prussians in the cellar?" he asked anxiously. "What are they doing?" The young woman laughed. "They are the same as were here yesterday. They lost their way, and I've given them free lodgings in the cellar."
Heaven be praised for the vent-hole. I will write to Marianna; Margaret shall take the letter with her" "Nay, nay, we can have none of that, Antonio," replied Salvator. "Margaret can be useful to us without being your love-messenger exactly.
After a time I succeeded, and shutting up my knife, I knocked the plug I had made in with the handle. The vent-hole was not so important to stop, so I let it alone. I was now able to eat my remaining bun, though I recollected that it was the last article of food I possessed. I afterwards took another pull at the water-cask.
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