Soldier. The General commanding orders that the two union prisoners, O’Flanagan and Goferum, convicted of spying in the confederate camp, be notified that they are to be shot at daylight. Per order General commanding. (Exit soldier, R. Barney and Hez. look at each other a moment in silence.)
Barney. He will do that?
Hezekiah. That’s the kind of hairpin he is.
Barney. The blackguard!
Hezekiah. Wal, I guess I’ve airn’t the powder and shot. If my old shooter hain’t tapped a hundred and fifty er them critters, you can jest hope ter holler.
Barney. I will get some lawyer to appeal that coort.
Hezekiah. You get out!
Barney. That was no coort. The constitution of Ameriky says nothing about a coort like that.
Hezekiah. It don’t make no difference. The shootin’ will come. They don’t care for constitewshuns down here.
Barney. I’ll have that thafe tried for murder if he does that. And I’ll tell him that to his face, too. I don’t care who any man is that will do an illagal thing like that.