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Updated: June 15, 2025
"You don't have to fight when you're wetter'n a drowned rat, and so tired you're ready to drop, do you?" "That's what you do," said Shorty, wiping off his musket. "That's the way you'll have to do most o' your fightin'. The miserabler you feel the miserabler you want to make the other fellers feel. Boys, turn your guns upside down and let the water run out.
The company wagon's stalled back somewhere. That spavin-brained teamster's at his old tricks. I want you to take five men off the rear of the company, go back and find that wagon, and bring it up. Be smart about it." "Captain," remonstrated Si, "I'm wetter'n a drowned rat!" "Well, who in thunder ain't?" exploded the Captain. "Do I look as dry as a basket of chips?
"We ought to have umbrellas," said Freddie, as he felt the drops of rain pelting down. "If we had umbrellas this would be fun, 'cause we aren't hurt from our balloon ride." "No, we aren't hurt," agreed Flossie, "'ceptin' I'm jiggled up a lot." "So'm I," Freddie stated. "I'm jiggled, too!" "And we hasn't got any umbrella, and I'm gettin' wetter'n wetter!" half sobbed Flossie.
Shorty plunged out, succeeded in catching the Lieutenant by the collar, and after a vicious struggle with the current, grabbed with his right hand a pole that Si thrust out to him, while with his left he dragged the Lieutenant ashore, "wetter'n a blamed drowned West Point muskrat," as he after ward expressed it.
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