"Yes, repoht to me, as youh officeh, suh."
"Oh, I fought yoh meant to repawt em wif a revolvah, sah."
"I suppose, gentlemen, you will let my sehvant go, when I say I deplohe his foolish mistake, and apologize foh his insolence?
"To be shure, sir," replied the guard; "give the man his horse, Annerew."
Maguffin remounted, and, receiving more minute instructions from his master, returned to his patrol duty.
"We're just coming in to help the Squire, and me to look after my childer, Tryphena and Tryphosa and Baby Rufus. When the Baby didn't come back this mornin', I said to his mother, 'Persis' says I, 'I must go and see the boy.' So here I am. My name is Hill, sir, Henry Cooke Hill, and this is my neighbour, and some day, perhaps, Rufus's father-in law, Annerew Hislop"—then in an undertone—"a very dacent man, sir, though a Sesayder."
"Is that the case?" asked the colonel with eagerness, advancing towards Andrew. "Were you on ouah side, suh, in the wahah?"
"Naw, naw, surr, I'm no sodjer, but a humble maimber o' the pure gospel Secession kirk. As the fufty-fufth parryphrase says:—
With heevenly wappons I have focht
The baittles o' the Lord."