29/35 In the spring we shall have an army big enough to eat them up." "So I have heard two or three times before. Scott was going to eat them up, McClellan was going to eat them up, then Pope was going to make an end of 'em altogether. Now McClellan is having a try again, but somehow or other the eating up hasn't come off yet. It looks to me rather the other way." There was an angry growl from two or three of those sitting round, while others uttered a cordial "That's so." "It seems to me, by the way you put it, that you don't wish to see this business come to an end." "That's where you are wrong now. I do wish to see it come to an end. |