8/50 Well, by the time you get back to-night,--that is, if you do come back,--I will get up a chest I've got buried with my men's clothes in them. They didn't want to take them away to the war with them, so I hid them up." She had by this time dug up the keg from its hiding-place, and now filled Tony's canteen. But I must get back as fast as I can. Ef it was dark before I got back to camp dey would wonder whar I had been." "Oh, you have plenty of time," the woman said; "it won't be dark till eight o'clock, and it's not seven yet. I will set to and boil a big chunk of pork and bake some cakes. |