S'pose we jest take the hoss and send the boy on." "A hoss like that would be knowed," protested the woman.

"What if sojers come lookin' fur him!" "We could run him off in the hills an' keep him there a while," said Leffingwell.

"I know places where sojers wouldn't find that hoss in a thousand years.

What do you say to that, Kerins ?" "Good as fur as it goes," replied Kerins, "but it don't go fur enough by a long shot.

The Yanks whipped the Johnnies in a big battle at Mill Spring.