THREE:CHAPTER II. SI AND SHORTY COME VERY NEAR LOSING THEIR BOYS.
THREE:CHAPTER II. SI AND SHORTY COME VERY NEAR LOSING THEIR BOYS.
THREE:"I think I can help you, 'Squire," said a big, goodnatured-looking civilian railroad man, who had become interested in the Deacon's troubles. "I've bin around with the Assistant Yard-Boss pickin' out a lot o' empties to hustle back to Nashville for grub. That's one o' them over there, on the furthest switchX634. See? It's got a chalk mark on it. I'll help you carry your boys into it, and fix 'em comfortable, and you'll go back with it all right." Opening it he read:
THREE:"Well, I declare to goodness," gasped the Deacon. "How could they've found her out so soon?""The masters are big and we are small," he said slowly. "The masters know better than we know."
THREE:"What was it?"
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THREE:"Yes, Major," answered Si, saluting. "And you're Maj. Tomlinson, of the 1st Oshkosh. This is my pardner. Shorty."
THREE:RE: Your memo May 15"Thankee, sir," said the Deacon. "But I must go back and 'tend to my boys. We've got a long ways to go yet to-day."
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