From the way our boys are snatching the Confederacy's real estate away, it begins to look as if you'd not have enough to fight anybody on pretty soon.

What's the meaning of all this fortifying ?" Old Man--"Why, don't you know?
Our folks are fixin' up a place foh Bill Sherman to butt his brains out gain'." "Bill Sherman!" we all shouted in surprise: "Why he ain't within two hundred miles of this place, is he ?" Old Man--"Yes, but he is, tho'.

He thinks he's played a sharp Yankee trick on Hood.

He found out he couldn't lick him in a squar' fight, nohow; he'd tried that on too often; so he just sneaked 'round behind him, and made a break for the center of the State, where he thought there was lots of good stealin' to be done.

But we'll show him.