What might your name be, Mr.Officer ?" "Kenton.

I'm a lieutenant, at present on the staff of General Jackson.
What is yours ?" "Seth Moore, an' I'm always a private, but at present doin' sentinel duty, but wishin' I was at home in our double log house 'tween the blankets." "Have you noticed anything, Seth ?" asked Harry, not at all offended by the nature of his reply.
"I've seen some snow, an' now an' then the cold top of a mountain, an'-- " "An' what, Seth ?" "Do you see that grove straight toward the north four or five hundred yards away ?" "Yes, but I can make nothing of it but a black blur.

It's too far away to tell the trunks of the trees apart." "It's too fur fur me, too, an' my eyes are good, but ten or fifteen minutes ago, leftenant, I thought I saw a shadder at the edge of the grove.

It 'peared to me that the shadder was like that of a horse with a man on it.

After a while it went back among the trees an' o' course I lost it thar." "You feel quite sure you saw the shadow, Seth ?" "Yes, leftenant.