"Sure," Dodd said. "Sure I do. So do all of us."Accordingly, he dragged the carcasses over after breakfast, and threw the dirt back in the hole upon them.Shorty returned to the fire. Si bade the boys he down again, and took his own blanket. Shorty relighted his pipe, took out his never-failing deck of cards and began running them over.
THREE:"Is it really?" said Annabel, whose tears were beginning to come. "It don't sound like it. Sargint don't sound near so big as Corporal. I always thought that Corporal was the very purtiest title in the whole army. None o' the rest o' them big names sounded half so nice. Whenever I saw Corporal in the papers I always thought of you."CHAPTER XIV. THE EVENING AFTER THE BATTLE.
"Importance demands accuracy," Dr. Haenlingen broke in. "Do you think you can be more accurate than a tape record?""Attention, battalionRight faceForwardfile leftMarch!"The bargaining instinct arose in the Deacon's mind, but he repressed it. He had no time to waste. He would make an offer that at home would be considered wildly extravagant, close the business at once and get back to Chattanooga. He said: "I'll give you a dollar apiece for five.""But if they are," Willis said, "the man in the street is going to lose a lot of other thingsthings dependent on our shipments.""I've got about three miles the start," he said as he rattled off. "This horse's young and fresh, while their's probably run down. The road from here to the main road's tollably good, and I think I kin git there before they kin overtake me."
