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"'Nacherally we-alls follows; Jaybird leadin', a-whoopin', an' a- shootin', an' throwin' no end of sperit into it. It's a success, this piece of wit is, up to this juncture, an' Jaybird puts a heap of zest into it. "'The weak spot in all this yere humor grows out of the idees this tenderfoot's been gainin', an' the improvements he's been makin', while stragglin' about in our s'ciety.
Shorty was tall and slim, mostly bone one of the sort that always stood the marching best, crept up to the Orderly and told him that he would have to stop and puff a while and give his blisters a rest. He'd pull up with Co. Q in an hour or so. "Better not, Si" said the Orderly; "ye know it's agin orders, and the rear-guard 'll punch ye with their bay'net's if they catch ye stragglin'."
There was a pause; then Steve Dagg emerged. "Major, I ain't either stragglin' or desertin'. I was just seperated I got seperated last night. The regiment's jes' down there I crept down an' saw it jes' now. I'm goin' back an' join right away send me to hell if I ain't! though Gawd knows my foot's awful sore " Stafford regarded him closely. "I've seen you before. Ah, I remember!
"Oi mane to be tellin' you what happened, sorr," said Cassidy stoutly. "When we shtarted out Oi fell three files to the rear, as became me, so as not to be in the way o' their colloguing, but sorra a bit o' stragglin' was there, and Oi kept them afore me all the toime.
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