Now, if he's got the spirit of a man he'll come out from under the bed and fight me." "O, he'll come out--he'll come out--never you fear," said Abe, sardonic as usual.

"He's got a day or two's leisure now to attend to this business.

A hundred thousand of him will come out.

They'll swarm out o' them cedar thickets there like grass-hoppers out of a timothy field." "Boys," said Harry, returning after a few minutes' absence, "the Colonel says we'll go into camp right here, just as we stand.

Kent, I'll take the canteens and hunt up water, if you and Abe will break some cedar boughs for the bed, and get the wood to cook supper with." "All right," responded Kent, "I'll go after the boughs." "That puts me in for the wood," grumbled Abe.