But what appals me partic'lar,' goes on Dan, 'about Peets an' Enright, is they takes their guns.

Now a ghost waxes onusual indignant if you takes to shootin' him up with guns.

No, it don't hurt him; but he regyards sech demonstrations as insults.

It's like my old pap says that time about the Yankees.

My old pap is a colonel with Gen'ral Price, an' on this evenin' is engaged in leadin' one of the most intrepid retreats of the war.