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"When'll we see some rebels?" the boys asked. "Don't be impatient," said a soldier on the sidewalk; "you'll see 'em soon enough, and more'n you want to. You'll have to go a little further, but you'll find the woods full of 'em. You'll be wishin' you was back home in your little trundle-beds, where they ought've kept you." "Shut up, you coffee-boiler," shouted Shorty, striding toward him.
"But you didn't see no signs o' Jarge, did ye?" demanded Old Amos, "as ye might say, neither 'ide nor 'air of 'im speak up, James Dutton." "W'ich, since you axes me, I makes so bold as to answer an' very glad I'm sure no; though as to 'ide an' 'air, I aren't wishin' to swear to, me not bein' near enough w'ich could only be expected, an' very much obliged, I'm sure."
And I had to come over here to-night and tell you." "Janet," Billy's eyes were dim, "I keep wishin' more an' more that ye had a ma. I ain't never thought openly on it fur years, not since ye was fust borned. But as ye grow int' womanhood, ye seem as helpless as ye did then. I wish ye had a ma!" The little halfway house was in front of them.
But 'tain't his now, an' 'course it won't be till she goes; an' 'course 'tain't for us to dodge her footsteps hopin' she'll jest naturally stop walkin' some day though I'm free to confess she has lost most all her facilities, bein' deaf an' lame an' some blind; an' I can't exactly see the harm in wishin' she had got 'em all back in Heaven, I mean. But 'course I don't say so to him.
"Sure, we've all heard that big wishin', but that's all it is, just wishin'. The Yankees wouldn't let up even if they crowded us clear back until we're knee-deep in the Rio Grande. It's close to the end now " "No, it ain't!" Boyd flared, more than a shade of the old stubbornness back in his voice. "It ain't goin' to be the end as long as one of us can ride and hold a carbine!
Oh ma cushla astore, forgive me! It's a gorilla I thought ye was, sure, for I hadn't time to look, d'ee see. It's wishin' you had staved in my timbers intirely I am." Rooney's exclamations were here cut short, and turned on another theme by the sudden appearance of Aileen Hazlit, who soon found that her friend was more alarmed than hurt.
Tam turned the key reluctantly and admitted the visitors. "A'm no' wishin' to be unceevil, Mr. Brandspeth, but Captain Blackie will strafe ye if he finds ye here." "Rubbish! I want you to meet Mr. Laramore." Tam looked at the keen-faced young athlete and slowly extended his hand. "I think you know my sister," said the smiling youth, "and certainly we all know you."
"Ach, ain't that simple now of me, Miss Lee?" she said in her old-fashioned manner. "I was so dumb and thought you was makin' fun of me, and just for that all summer I was wishin' school would not start ever. And I was sayin' all the time I ain't goin' to like you. But now I do like you," she added softly. "I am glad we understand each other, Phœbe."
"You air wishin' us prosperity whilst Lem sells pizen to his feller men?" "Oh, Mrs. Parraday! I was not thinking of the liquor selling," said Janice sympathetically. "Ye'd better think of it, then," pursued the tavernkeeper's wife. "Ye'd better think of it, day and night. That's what I do. I git on my knees and pray 't Lem won't prosper as long as that bar room's open. I do it 'fore Lem himself.
David had the axe in a jiffy, and when Doctor Joe removed the cover the box was found to be filled with books. "O-h-h!" breathed the boys in unison. "'Tis fine! Oh, I've been wishin' and wishin' for books t' look at and read!" exclaimed Margaret.
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