What are you wastin' your time in little things fur?
Couldn't you find somethin' bigger an' a heap more dangerous that would stir you up an' give you action ?" Harry laughed.
"I was set to do this task, Mr.Perkins," he said, "and I mean to do it." "That shows good sperrit, but ef I wuz set to do it I wouldn't.

Do you know whar you are an' what's around you, Johnny Reb ?" "No, I don't." "Wa'al, you're right inside o' the Union lines.

The armies o' Patterson an' McDowell hem in all this forest, an' I reckon mebbe it wuz a good thing fur you that the storm came up an' you got past in it.

Wuz you expectin', Johnny Reb, to ride right into the Yankee pickets with that Confedrit uniform on ?" "I don't know exactly what I intended to do.

I meant to see in the morning.