"We'll take care o' that," said Si sharply. "Will you promise on your honor to stay with these men, and take care o' them till daylight, if we don't come sooner?"
ONE:"Si," said Shorty, "we thought old Rosecrans had heaped up the measure when we started out from Nashville for Stone River. But that was only the beginning for the gang he got together for the Tullyhomy campaign, and 'taint more than onct to what old Sherman's goin' to begin business with. I like it. I like to see any man start into a game with a full hand and a big stack o' chips."
THREE:Groups of officers would come up to a little rise in front, study the distant ridge with their glasses for awhile, and then ride away.
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FORE:The firing and stone-throwing lasted an hour or more, and then seemed to die down from sheer exhaustion.recited Monty Scruggs. "Gracious, I'm hit!"
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FORE:And, a day later, when everyone was picking up the scattered pieces of the world and attempting, somehow, to rig a new defense, she'd said more. Not about herself, or about him. Tacitly, they knew all of that had to wait for a conclusion to the battle. But about the Alberts...."I didn't know anything," Greta's voice said. "She was there, that's all."
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(Shorty was on the point of adding "Hope that you are enjoying the same blessing," when a shiver passed through him that it might be improper to allude to a young lady's locomotory apparatus. After deep meditation, he took safety's side and added):Cadnan nodded. "Tell me," he said, very calmly."By rights, I ought to be a Jigadier-Brindle," retorted Shorty, "but I never could git Abe Lincoln to take that view of it. Here, fill up your cartridgebox. You'll need lots of 'em, if you're only goin' to shoot to crease your rebels, as that feller did you.""And then something happened," Dr. Haenlingen said tightly. "I know.""Well," said Billings, defensively, "the feller is a straggler, without papers to show where he belonged, and he was very sassy to mecalled me a liar, and said other mean things, right before my men, and I had to order him bucked-and-gagged to shut him up."
