[What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Answer? CHAPTER XV 3/20
What in thunder did you bring the damned Copperhead sheet to me for, if you didn't want it smashed? Ain't you ashamed of yourself having such a thing round? How'd you feel if you were picked up dead by a reb, with that stuff in your pocket? Say now!" Coolidge laughed,--he was always ready to laugh: that was probably why the men liked him so well, and stood in awe of him not a bit.
"Feel? horridly, of course.
Bad enough, being dead, to yet speak, and tell 'em that paper didn't represent my politics: 'd that do ?" Jim shook his head dubiously. "What are you making such a devil of a row for, I'd like to know? it's too hot to get excited.
'Tain't likely you know anything about Willie Surrey." "O ho! it is Mr.Will, then, is it? Know him,--don't I, though? Like a book.
Known him ever since he was knee-height of a grasshopper.
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