"It is good they do not," Cadnan said stubbornly. "A slave is a big thing, and Cadnan is only a little thing. It is better to be big than little."
ONE:The boys, to whom a rebel was a savage wolf, to be killed any way that he could be caught, looked wonderingly at Si, who responded by a nod of approval."Here she goes, I guess," he continued, as a bugle sounded at headquarters. "Everybody git ready to jump at the word, and not stop goin' till we're inside the works."
TWO:"That's the way," Norma approved. "Soon you'll be drinking with the big boys."
THREE:"Hello, there; where are you goin', you chuckle-headed clodhoppers?" yelled the men on another train rushing down from a different direction. "This ain't no hayfield. Go back home and drive cows, and git out o' the way o' men who're at work."
TWO:"Certainly," said the Surgeon, stopping on his way. "I guess I can spare a minute. Take off that bandage, my boy.""Your men," sneered Shorty. "You talk as if they was niggers, and not white men. Who made 'em yours?"
"I'm Serg't Klegg, sir, of Co. Q, 200th Injianny Volunteer Infantry.""I'm goin' down there," he said, after a moment's deliberation. "Providence has sent me on this job, and intends I shall do it right, which I kin by goin' down there. Providence'll take care o' me while I'm goin'. Same time, Providence expects me to show gumption, by not exposin' myself any more'n possible.""And you had to invite them....""They need us," Albin said uncertainly. "They can't do without us."
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THREE:"O, yes, you do," sneered the Orderly-Sergeant. "Who was it, I'd like to know, that sent word back to the boys in the rear to steal the Chaplain's horse, and keep him hid for a day or two so's he couldn't get up and hold services, because you boys wanted to go fishing in the Tennessee River?"
THREE: blessin's ov helth, and the konsolashuns ov religion."Of course, there was Marvor. Later in the night, while Cadnan still lay awake trying to put thoughts and words together in his mind, Marvor moved closer to him.
