Two of the Clary's Grove Gang who had tarried in the village sat in the gloom of its little veranda apparently asleep.

Dr.
Allen, Jack Kelso, Alexander Ferguson and Martin Waddell were sitting by its fireside while Abe sat on the counter with his legs hanging off.
"He's a tough oak stick of a man," Kelso was saying.
"Here he is now," said Dr.Allen.

"That lad you cuffed had to stop at my office for repairs." "I told you once to use a crowbar if you wanted to hit anybody, but never to use your hands," said Abe.
"Well there wasn't any time to lose and there was no crowbar handy," said Samson.
"That reminds me of a general who made the boys of his regiment promise to let him do all the swearin'," Abe began.

"One day a sergeant got into trouble with a mule team.

It was raining hard and the off mule balked.
Wouldn't draw a pound.