8/23 I don't want to inveigle you. Brisk young blood is what we want; not milk and water. We won't take five men out of six. We want top-sawyers, we do. I'm not a-going to tell tales out of school, but, damme, if every gentleman's son that carries arms in our corps, through being under a cloud and having little differences with his relations, was counted up'-- here his eye fell on Joe again, and so good-naturedly, that Joe beckoned him out. |