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A lot of the wayward sons jumped at it quick, and we're 'way ahead on the game, any way you look at it. Now take some of those boys in the Lafayette Escadrille. Why, if they " Yancey's voice droned on, but McGee no longer heard what he was saying, though to all appearances he was paying courteous attention.
Passage of the Secession Ordinance. Governor Pickens's Proclamation. Judge Petigru's Visit to Fort Moultrie. Floyd's Treachery. Yancey's Lectures in the North. The Removal to Fort Sumter. On the 17th a bill was passed to arm the militia of North Carolina.
Siddons and Hampden, not greatly interested in what they felt was some new strained humor on Yancey's part, pushed back from the table and started for the door, their objective being the French town of Is Sur Tille. Yancey waited until they were near the door before he answered Porter.
To what end could it have been placed under the rock on the edge of the overflow-stream from the Elmvale Dam? Whistler had little to say himself during that meal at Yancey's. He heard nothing more from the next booth, for Blake seemed to manage the half drunken skipper of the Sarah Coville with better judgment. By and by the two men left the restaurant.
His paunch began and ended so suddenly that he constantly reminded you of a man who had swallowed a toy balloon. Yancey's first word was an anxious inquiry as to whether he was late, adding, "I came ez soon ez I could settle some business mattahs."
Yancey's horse proved, on closer inspection, to be the remnant of an army mule with a moth-eaten mane and a polished tail bare of hair worn off, no doubt, in a lifelong struggle with the Fairfax County fly. The major was without the luxury of a saddle, some one having borrowed the only one the owner of the mule possessed, and his breeches, in consequence, were half way up his knees.
Other seceders were more impatient, and desired that something be done forthwith; but as the sessions were continued to the second and third day, their overflowing zeal found a safety-valve in their speeches. Mr. Yancey's programme prevailed, and they also adjourned to meet again in Richmond on the 11th of June.
He was, at the time, at work in the Park getting animals for the National Museum at Washington, and was staying at Yancey's "hotel" near Tower Falls, His letter which was dated June 21st, 1891, runs in part as follows: "I had a splendid Grizzly or Roachback cub and was going to send him into the Springs next morning the team was here. I heard a racket outside, went out, and found him dead.
Half a dozen times he swung around, gained a little altitude, and again went plowing down along the road, his guns jumping and smoking in fiendish delight. Harass the advancing enemy, eh? And the line of supplies? A job exactly suited to Yancey's heart and spirit. But McGee was wise in such matters, and having delivered a blow drew off and sought other fields to conquer.
"Besides, gentlemen, I don't think Mr. Klutchem's remarks were insulting." The colonel's head rose out of his collar with a jerk, and the forelegs of Yancey's chair struck the floor with a thump. Both sprang to their feet. The judge and I remained quiet. "Not insultin', suh, to call a gemman a a Colonel, what did the scoundrel call you?" "It was mo' his manner," replied the colonel.
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