'Tis better to live muddy than not to live at all." "It would be better to call it the Great Tired Army just now," said Harry.

"To keep on pulling your feet all day long out of mud half a yard deep is the most exhausting thing I know or ever heard of." "Where are we going ?" asked St.Clair.
"Blessed if I know," replied Harry, "nor does anybody else save one.
It's all hid under General Jackson's hat." "I guess it's Staunton," said Langdon.

"That's a fine town, as good as Winchester.

I've got kinsfolk there.

I came up once from South Carolina and made them a visit." But it was not Staunton, although Staunton, hearing of the march, had been joyfully expecting Jackson's men.