TWO:At the top of the hill he looked back, and saw the rebels coming out. Apparently they had not understood what had happened. They had seen no Yankees and could not have seen the Deacon's tussle with the old man. They supposed that the holler simply meant for them to come in and get their dinner, instead of having it taken out to them. All this passed through the Deacon's mind, and he chuckled over the additional start it would give him.
TWO:"It's a hog all the same," Shorty assured them. "A genuine razor-back hog. But he's got the secession devil in him like the people, and you want to be careful of him. He ain't fit to eat or I'd kill him. Let's git back to the mill."
TWO:"It's all right," the master said at last. "You don't have to be afraid, Cadnan. I'm not going to hurt you." He looked sadly at the slave, but Cadnan ignored the look: there was no room in him for more guilt.
TWO:I must break it. Dara says I go."But s'pose he comes on you when your gun ain't loaded, and his sword is, or you've missed him, as I did that hog?"
Shorty anxiously scanned the field in every direction, but without his eyes being gladdened by the sight of the boy."Jest as I expected, Si," Shorty called back to him. "The rebels have throwed back a squad to watch for us.""Yes, Where's Alf Russell?" echoed Si, with a new pang clutching at his heart, for he then recalled that he had not seen Alf since he had helped him up the embankment, immediately after which Si's thoughts, had been engrossed by the struggle for the flag. "Did any of you boys see either Alf or Monty?" he asked nervously."I'll shoot the first man that attempts to come on this car, and I'll kill your Captain, that I've got covered, dead. You man with that shot-gun, p'int it straight up in the air or I'll drop you in your tracks. Now fire off both barrels."
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THREE:He rapidly repeated the magic formula, and pronounced Gid Mackall "it."Willis, of Labor, was the first to recover. "It's not that we'd like to interfere" he began.
