He's going to the Quartermaster's now, to get a horse to ride to a dance and candy-pulling at that double log-house four miles down the Harrodsburg Pike.

I heard him talking to some other fellows about it when I went up with the squad to bring the rations down to the company." "Seems to em, come to think of it, that I HAVE heard of some rheumatic symptoms recently.

Remember that a couple of weeks ago Pete Sanford got a bullet through his blouse, that scraped his ribs, don't you ?" "Yes," said Abe, spitting the seeds out from a mouthful of honeyed pulp.
"Well, the boys say that Jake went to a candy-pulling frolic down in the Cranston settlement, and got into a killing flirtation with the prettiest girl there.

She was taken with his brass buttons, and his circus-horse style generally, but she had another fellow that it didn't suit so well.

He showed his disapproval in a way that seems to be the fashion down here; that is, he 'laid for' Jake behind a big rock with a six-foot deer rifle, but mistook Pete Sanford for him." "The dunderhead's as poor a judge of men as he's marksman.