TWO:The Deacon had grown so wise in the army ways that his first problem was how to hide the remaining four fowls until he should need them.Without making the least noise, Si reached the edge of the abatis. There a young tulip tree had been left standing, and its plentiful branches and large leaves made a thick mass of darkness. He rose upright behind, but his foot came down on a dead stick, which broke with a sharp crack. All the blood rushed to his heart. But at the same instant his head had disturbed a whip-poor-will who had taken refuge there from the noise. She flew away with a tumult of plaintive "whips." The rebel in front halted for a long time. Then he apparently concluded that an owl was after the whip-poor-will, and, reassured, came forward.
TWO:"Yours, for example," promptly responded Shorty, sending out his mighty right against the man's head."It's all right, Johnny," she said.
