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He cleared his throat raspingly, clawed at his whiskers and smiled his nervous timid smile.
“Well, it"s a long story, Miss Scarlett.”
“Thank the Lord！”she thought.“Perhaps it will hold him till we get home.”And aloud：“Do tell！”
“You recall when we came to Tara last, hunting for supplies？Well, not long after that I went into active service. I mean real fighting.No more commissary for me.There wasn"t much need for a commissary, Miss Scarlett, because we couldn"t hardly pick up a thing for the army, and I thought the place for an able-bodied man was in the fighting line.Well, I fought along with the cavalry for a spell till I got a minie ball through the shoulder.”
He looked very proud and Scarlett said：“How dreadful！”
“Oh, it wasn"t so bad, just a flesh wound，”he said deprecatingly.“I was sent down south to a hospital and when I was just about well, the Yankee raiders came through. My, my, but that was a hot time！We didn"t have much warning and all of us who could walk helped haul out the army stores and thehospital equipment to the train tracks to move it.We"d gotten one train about loaded when the Yankees rode in one end of town and out we went the other end as fast as we could go.My, my, that was a mighty sad sight, sitting on top of that train and seeing the Yankees burn those supplies we had to leave at the depot.Miss Scarlett, they burned about a half-mile of stuff we had piled up there along the tracks.We just did get away ourselves.”