"Well, you just keep off en my toes with them rockgrinders o' your'n," Harry retorted."What place is this?""Training is training," Derban said. "Got to put up with it, because what can you do about it?"
TWO:"Maria," called out Si, "if you don't stop plaguin' Shorty I'll come back there and wring your neck. You kin make the worst nuisance o' yourself o' any girl that ever lived. Here, you go up there and walk with Cousin Marthy. I'll walk with Shorty. I've got something I want to say to him."Dusk was fast coming on, when the woods beyond the foot of the slope began to darken again with masses of men arraying in column of assault.
TWO:"Capt. McGillicuddy," commanded the Colonel, as they advanced beyond where the picket-line had been, "deploy your company on both sides of the road, and take the advance. Keep a couple hundred yards ahead of the regiment."
"You won't do nothin' o' the kind. Shorty. Don't you contradict me. Let him go, I tell you.""Well, my man's beauty's spiled forever," said Shorty. "The light flared up on his face and I let him have it there.""Sure," said Si confidently. "You watch the other side o' the bridge and I'll look out for the rest.""Now you kin clear away them dead mules and go ahead. You won't scarcely be bothered any more for awhile at least."