"If we could only get rid of all their generals as easy as that we'd promise not to eat again for a week.

Everything else all right ?" "No, sir," said Virgie, dolefully.

"All the niggers has runned away--all 'cept Uncle Billy and Sally Ann.

Jeems Henry runned away this morning." "The deuce he did! The young scamp!" "He's gone to join the Yankees," Virgie continued.
"What's that ?" and Cary sprang up to pace to and fro.

"I wonder which way he went ?" "I don' know," whimpered Virgie forlornly.