Your arithmetic will show you that Harry's percentage in the Southern army is so small that it reaches the vanishing point.

If I can borrow from you, George, x equals Harry's percentage, which is nothing, y equals the value of my hypothetical opportunity, which is nothing, then x plus y equals nothing, which represents the whole affair, which is nothing, that is, worth nothing to the Union.

Hence I have no more obligation to shoot Harry if I meet him than he has to shoot me." "Well spoken, Dick," said Sergeant Whitley.

"Some people, I reckon, can take duty too hard.

If you have one duty an' another an' bigger one comes along right to the same place you ought to 'tend to the bigger one.