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"I wonder if my regiment was in it." "No, I don't reckon it was," answered the man, with a laugh. "You see it happened out in Virginny, a few miles from Washington. I wish I might get a later paper'n that, for I calculate to read in it that our boys are in Washington dictating " "Hey youp!" yelled the captain, who began to understand the matter now.
"You get up dar, John Thomas!" called the man vigorously; "you tank de gentleman, Jefferson, boy! I wonda wha your manners is. Tank you, massar! know'd you was a gentleman, sar! Massar, is your family from ole Virginny?" It was five o'clock when I rejoined S., and the greater part of our journey had yet to be made.
"Now yo' know that way down in Ol' Virginny where Ah done come from, mah fam'ly done got the habit of sitting on the tops of chimneys in the wintertime to warm their toes." "Why, I thought it was warm down south!" interrupted Peter Rabbit. "So it is, Brer Rabbit! So it is!" Ol' Mistah Buzzard hastened to say.
Uncle Jase, to whom this was all an inexplicable riddle, glanced perplexedly at old Caleb and Caleb stood for the moment irresolute, then with a sigh of relief, as though for discovery of a solution, he demanded: "Did ye ever make use of yore middle name over thar in Virginny?" "No. I reckon nobody don't skeercely know I've got one."
Yet one of their best choruses, without any fixed words, was, "De bell done ringing," for which, in proper South Carolina dialect, would have been substituted, "De bell been a-ring." This refrain may have gone South with our army. "Ride in, kind Saviour! No man can hinder me. O, Jesus is a mighty man! No man, &c. We're marching through Virginny fields. No man, &c.
I don't like the look of it, sir; and have it back we shall, as sure as there's snakes in Virginny." "Well, so be if so be," was the safe reply of the captain. "You must keep a sharp look out, Bareth, and don't leave the deck to call me; send a hand down." The captain descended to his cabin.
The world was large and there were other Virginias, as well as other Paymasters only it seemed such a futile waste. He sighed again and then Death Valley Charley burst out into a cackling laugh. "I heard you," he said, "I heard you coming away up there in the pass. Chuh, chuh, chuh, chud, chud, chud, chud; and I told Virginny you was coming."
"That last visit to the ancestral acres is what did it." "No, it's age age and prosperity. I know now what it is to have broiled steak." Mrs. Wetherford, seizing the moment, came down to do the honors. "You fellers ought to know my girl. Virginny, this is Forest Supervisor Redfield, and this is Ross Cavanagh, his forest ranger in this district. You ought to know each other.
"Hit's a bigger thing then thet an' ye've got ter know in full what ye dies for afore I kills ye ye hain't deluded me as fur es ye thinks ye have I knows ye betrayed me in Virginny; I knows ye shot at old Jim an' fathered ther infamies of ther riders; I knows ye sought ter fo'ce yoreself on Dorothy; but I didn't git thet knowledge from her. She kep' her bargain with ye."
Well, if that don't whip the Union. But I see: you were born in the States of Welsh parents." "No harm in being born in the States of Welsh parents," said I. "None at all, Mr; I was myself, and the first language I learnt to speak was Welsh. Did your people come from Bala, Mr?" "Why no! Did yourn?" "Why yaas at least from the neighbourhood. What State do you come from? Virginny?" "Why no!"
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