"What in the world's the matter?" asked Si, rushing up to them in dismay."Yes," echoed Shorty, "we'll be the only part o' the rijiment at the front, and we want to git a good stiff brace on ourselves, because if we don't some o' these other rijiments may git the grand laugh on us."
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"Give me something as near as possible the color of that."Shorty read over laboriously:"They said they were going for our breakfast," said Harry. "And I hope it's true, for I'm hungrier'n a rip-saw. But I could put off breakfast for awhile, if they'd only bring us our guns. I hope they'll be nice Springfield rifles that'll kill a man at a mile.""Why," said Si, "I supposed that they was too tired to do anything but lay down and go to sleep. What'd they do?"