"Heap more'n that taller-faced yaller girl he done taken up with now." "I think myself," said Kitty, judicially, "that Benjie might at least bow to his former wife when he passes by." "That'd be all I _wanted_," said Annie; "but I kaint stand them horty ways.

Why, I mended the very shirt he's got on his back right now; and I _bought_ them shoes fer him." "Annie's _such_ a poor shot!" explained Kitty.

"She has taken a pot-shot at Benjie I don't know how many times, but she always misses.

Colonel Meriwether sent a file down to see what was going on, the first time, but when I explained it was my cook, he said it was all right, and that if she missed Benjie it harmed no one, and if she happened to kill him it would be only what he deserved.

Annie's the best cook in the Army, and the Colonel knows it.