Halcom. The poor child is dying.
Sherman. Not a bit of it. She is too smart to die! Take her to my quarters. Orderly, here! (Enter Ord. L. U. E.; with Halcom takes her out, L. U. E.) Have my surgeon attend that girl, and tell him if he lets her die, I will hang him an hour after. (Exit Ord. L.) I am the biggest ass in the service. If I ever abuse a woman again, I hope I may be shot by an idiot! (Exit L. Enter Barney and Hez. L. U. E.)
Barney. Now whin I would be arrestin’ a blackguard like that, don’t you be a botherin’ me.
Hezekiah. Now you git out. I guess it was jest about as cheap for him ter git away, as it would be for you to get a collapse in your real estate. (Set guns against tree, sit down and wipe perspiration, &c.)
Barney. Now look in these two eyes of me. Didn’t ye be kickin’ that blackguard whin I would be takin’ him?
Hezekiah. I rayther kalkerlate you was on the pint er passin’ in yer chips when I lit on that critter.
Barney. Ah ha! I’m nobody, I s’pose. Was I?
Hezekiah. I guess that feller was the most astonished piece er meat I ever traveled over. I kalkerlate that when I lit on the other eend of his corperation, he come to the conklusion that he was wrastlin’ with a first-class earthquake.
Barney. I don’t care about thim airthquakes. I want none er thim. My reputashin is spit upon.
Hezekiah. I reckon I never jumped onter anything in that line er critter that wanted ter go home so bad as he did.