As ill-tempered as tired, the boys roused up from the ground, and began taking their guns from the stacks. Harry Joslin snatched his out first, and the stack, falling over, the bayonet points struck Gid Mackall's face. The angry Gid responded with a blow landed on the side of Harry's head. In an instant the two clinched, and the others, who were in no better humor, began striking at one another in blind temper. Si and Shorty snatched the two principals apart with a good deal of violence and much show of their own tempers."Self-interest"
TWO:"Now, boys," said Si, taking his place in front and facing them, "you've bin talkin' about guerrillas ever since we crossed the Ohio, but now there's a prospect o' meetin' some. I hadn't expected to see any till after we'd reached Chattanoogy, but guerrillas's never where you expect 'em."
TWO:The Orderly started to obey, when a regiment which had been ordered to report at Headquarters came up at quick step, halted, and ordered arms with much clatter. The frightened horse bounded off down the road, with the Deacon sawing on the lines and trying to stop him.
TWO:The Deacon's first thought was for Si, and he bestirred himself to do what he thought his wife, who was renowned as a nurse, would do were she there."Sure," Dodd said dully. "I know. The rest of them say I shouldn't, but I think about you a lot. About all of you."
DEALING WITH AN OBSTRUCTION TO THE HOMEWARD JOURNEY.The boys, too much awed for speech, clustered around Si and Shorty and cast anxious glances at their faces."What in the world made you so long comin'?" asked Shorty, after all the prisoners had been secured. "Was you asleep?"It seemed an age until the whistle of the locomotive was heard. The engine had to stop to take water at the creek, several hundred yards from the station, and Maria's impatience to see Si and be the first to speak to him could not brook the delay.
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THREE:"It seems complex," Norma said."What do the rest of us do?" they chorused.
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