I know that if my place at home were burned down, and my people insulted and ill-treated, I should be inclined to set off to avenge it." "So would I," Vincent agreed, "but it should be upon those who did the wrong, not upon innocent people." "That is all very well, but if the other side destroy your people's farms, it is only by showing them that two can play at the game that you can make them observe the laws of war.

I grant it would be very much better that no such thing should take place; but if the Northerners begin this sort of work they may be sure that there will be retaliation.
Anyhow, I am glad that I am an officer in the 7th Virginia and not a guerrilla leader in Missouri.

Well, all this talking is dry work.

Has no one got a full canteen ?" "I have," Vincent said.

"Dan managed to buy a gallon of rum at a farmhouse yesterday.