The Colonel is anxious to begin shooting." The Colonel, who began to suspect himself victimized, stood wondering what under heaven they were going to do next.
"I am a-gitt'n' there," said the orator with a broad and sunny condescension.

"I found your champions an' laid 'em low.

I waxed Walters, and then I tackled the Colonel.

I tried the _echelon_, the 'general advance,' then the 'give away' and 'flank' movements.

But the Colonel _was there_! Till this last game it was a fair field and no favor.