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"That's the p'int; I resign from this time forward; I haven't given satisfaction and you may now do the work to suit yourselves." "It's just as well," commented the captain, "for we can't make a greater mess of it than you." The story told by Vose Adams was a singular one, but the most singular feature about it was that it did not contain a grain of truth.
I place my opposition to duelling on higher grounds than here stated. No doubt a majority of the duels fought have been for want of moral courage on the part of those engaged to decline. At Camp Salubrity, and when we went to New Orleans Barracks, the 4th infantry was commanded by Colonel Vose, then an old gentleman who had not commanded on drill for a number of years.
The fact that Vose waited until the savage had withdrawn from sight, before making the astonishing declaration, threw some discredit on it, for it would have required a good telescope to do what he claimed to have done with the unassisted eye alone. "You see I was looking for something of the kind," he explained, "or mebbe I wouldn't have obsarved him."
"That is good news," said Ruggles heartily, "for it has been mighty tough on the animals; I 'spose too, the trail is smoother." Adams laughed. "I am sorry to say it's rougher." Ruggles muttered impatiently, but the four took up the task, Adams in the lead, with the rest stringing after him in Indian file. The declaration of Vose was verified sooner than was expected.
"I remember," nodded the landlord; "you started with two kegs and got here with about half a one; the leakage was tremenjus on that trip." "True; the blizzards is always rough on Mountain Dew, and sorter makes it shrink," replied the unblushing Vose. "Can't you stop the casks leaking so much," inquired Felix Brush, who had been a parson in Missouri, and claimed that he had never been "unfrocked."
It was because of this concentration of his mind upon the one thing that the captain failed to perceive that the mule in his front had stopped walking, until the rim of his slouched hat touched the tail of the motionless animal. "Helloa, Vose, what's the matter?"
"And the same being that you can't read the directions writ onto them, I don't see how you're going to help yourself." "The postmaster at Sacramento is very obligin'," was the significant comment of Vose. Bidwell saw the dangerous ground on which he was treading, and made it safe by a jesting remark and an invitation to Adams and the rest to join him at the bar.
Our stay in New Constantinople will give all a better chance to get acquainted with Nellie. I'll surrender her to you until you get tired of her." "Get tired of her!" repeated Vose Adams, voicing the sentiments of all; "we're not the kind of galoots to git tired of an angel." The father expressed his thanks with such winsome grace, that every man instinctively felt that he was a born gentleman.
Peering into the darkness, Vose dimly made out the forms of the four animals, who, having ceased their cropping of the grass, had lain down for the remainder of the night. They were so near that they could not be stampeded or stolen without the effort being known to the sentinel.
"No, sir!" declared Ike; "afore I indulged in the expression, so proper under the tryin' circumstances, I looked round to make sartin she wasn't in hearing distance." "You must have looked very quick," said Vose; "for the horrible words was simultaneous with the flattenin' of your big forefinger. Howsumever, I gazed round myself and am happy to say she warn't in sight.
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