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The removal to Colle was made the same day, and Janice assumed her new charge. It was, as it proved, not a very onerous one, for the children were well mannered for their years, and, young as they were, in the German method they were kept pretty steadily at tasks, while an old servant of the general, a German Yager, was only too delighted at any time to assume care of them.
When Bud Molloy lay dyin' he says to the brakeman, 'You tell my wife to be good to Nance," "So she's your stepchild?" "Yes, sir, an' Bud Molloy was as clever a man as ever trod shoe-leather. So was Mr. Yager. Nobody can't say I ever had no trouble with my two first. They wasn't what you might call as smart a man as Snawdor, but they wasn't no fool." It was a peculiarity of Mrs.
FIRST YAGER. Such a morsel as this, for himself alone! Dragoon, why say, art thou crazy grown? SECOND YAGER. In the camp to be keeping a wench for one! No! the light of a pretty girl's face must fall, Like the beams of the sun, to gladden us all. I tell you again, that it shan't be done. FIRST YAGER. The pipers are coming, lads! now for fun! I shan't be far off, should you look for me.
And Yager, let's hear where your country is? SECOND YAGER. Up above Wismar my fathers dwell. And he's from Eger and I as well: And now, my comrades, I ask you whether, Would any one think, when looking at us, That we, from the North and South, had thus Been hitherward drifted and blown together? Do we not seem as hewn from one mass?
Go, ask I speak not with boastful tongue In Bareuth, Westphalia, Voigtland, where'er Our troops have traversed go, ask them there Children and children's children long, When hundreds and hundreds of years are o'er, Of Holk will tell and his Yager corps. SERGEANT. Why, hark! Must a soldier then be made By driving this riotous, roaring trade!
The bereft widow lost no time in seeking consolation. Naturally the first person to present himself on terms of sympathetic intimacy was the undertaker who officiated at poor Bud's funeral. At the end of six months she married him, and was just beginning to enjoy the prestige which his profession gave her, when Mr. Yager also passed away, becoming, as it were, his own customer.
To cut short a long story of bloody justice, it may be added that of the men named as guilty by Yager every one was arrested, tried, and hung by the Vigilantes. Plummer for some time must have dreaded detection, for he tried to cover up his guilt by writing back home to the States that he was in danger of being hanged on account of his Union sympathies.
The drum and the fife, War's rattling throng, And a wandering life The world along! Swift steed and a hand To curb and command With a blade by the side, We're off far and wide. As jolly and free, As the finch in its glee, On thicket or tree, Under heaven's wide hollow Hurrah! for the Friedlander's banner I'll follow! SECOND YAGER. Foregad! a jolly companion, though.
He speedily fell in with another wanderer, driving a pack-horse. They lived like Indians in the Alleghany Mountains region of southwestern Pennsylvania. Two years passed. In March, 1773, Simon Butler, aged eighteen, was camped with two other hunters, named Strader and Yager, beside the Great Kanawha River of northwestern West Virginia.
Even when Fidy Yager, who "wasn't all there," and who, according to her mother, had "a fit a minute," was carried away to the pest-house, nobody was particularly alarmed. But when, twenty-four hours later, Mr. Snawdor and one of the Lavinski helpers came down with it, the alley began to look serious, and Mrs. Snawdor sent for Nance.
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