24/27 And don't she look just lovely in that picture? Evidently thinks his goose is cooked; and I don't wonder, with that Modoc swooping down on him with such a discouraging club. He fought in the war, too; and one day a lot of 'em caught him when he was off his guard, and they tied him flat on his back on a horse, and then licked the horse like the very mischief. And what does that horse do but go pitching down about four hundred stone steps in front of the house, with General Putnam laying there nearly skeered to death. Leastways, the publisher said somehow that way, and I oncet read about it myself. |