It will never do to put him in the stable; the Yankees come in and out, and they'd take him off sharp enough if their eyes fell on him.

I think you will be safe enough, even if they do come.

They will take you for a son of mine, and if they ask any questions I will answer them sharp enough." "I wonder they have left you a feed of corn," Vincent said, when the woman returned after taking away his horse.
"It's no thanks to them," she answered; "they have cleared out everything that they could lay their hands on.

But I have been expecting it for months, and, as I have had nothing to do since my man and boys went away, I have been digging a great pit in the wood over there, and have buried most all my corn, and have salted my pigs down and buried them in barrels; so they didn't find much.

They took the old horse and two cows; but I hope the old horse will fall down the first time they uses him, and the cow meat will choke them as eats it.