After all, we never expected to come out of this thing with our lives.' Blenkiron, with his leg stuck out stiffly before him, was humming quietly to himself, as he often did when he felt cheerful.

He had only one song, 'John Brown's Body'; usually only a line at a time, but now he got as far as the whole verse: 'He captured Harper's Ferry, with his nineteen men so true, And he frightened old Virginny till she trembled through and through.
They hung him for a traitor, themselves the traitor crew, But his soul goes marching along.' 'Feeling good ?' I asked.
'Fine.

I'm about the luckiest man on God's earth, Major.

I've always wanted to get into a big show, but I didn't see how it would come the way of a homely citizen like me, living in a steam-warmed house and going down town to my office every morning.

I used to envy my old dad that fought at Chattanooga, and never forgot to tell you about it.