2/37 I'll be glad when it's over." "So will I," said Warner. "I wonder what kind of hotels they have in Jackson. I'd like to have a bath, good room and a big breakfast." "The Johnnies are holding breakfast for you," said Pennington. "Their first course is gunpowder, their second bullets, their third shells and shrapnel, and their fourth bayonets." "They'll have to serve a lot at every course," said Dick, "because General Grant is advancing with fifty thousand men, and so many need a lot of satisfying." The storm increased in violence. The rain, falling in a deluge, was driven by a wind like a hurricane. |