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Page 41 - Was, jes' as we turned to start away, — "Well, good-by, Jim: Take keer of yourse'f !" Teared-like, he was more satisfied Jes' lookin' at Jim And likin' him all to hisse'f-like, see? — 'Cause he was jes' wrapped up in him! And over and over I mind the day The old man come and stood round in the way While we was drillin', a-watchin...
Page 41 - At Jim was the bravest boy we had In the whole dern rigiment, white er black, And his fightin' good as his farmin' bad, — 'At he had led, with a bullet clean Bored through his thigh, and carried the flag Through the bloodiest battle you ever seen, — The old man wound up a letter to him 'At, Cap. read to us, 'at said, — "Tell Jim Good-by; And take keer of hisse'f !" Jim come home jes' long enough To take the whim 'At he'd like to go back in the calvery — And the old man jes' wrapped up in...
Page 15 - And touch her, as when first in the old days I touched her girlish hand, nor dared upraise Mine eyes, such was my faint heart's sweet distress. Then silence ; and the perfume of her dress.
Page 42 - Tuk the papers, the Old man did, A-watchin' fer Jim — Fully believin' he'd make his mark Some way — jes' wrapped up in him! — And many a time the word 'u'd come 'At stirred him up like the tap of a drum — At -Petersburg, fer...
Page 43 - Well, good-by, Jim: Take keer of yourse'f ! " Think of a private, now, perhaps, We '11 say like Jim, 'At 's dumb clean up to the shoulderstraps — And the old man jes' wrapped up in him ! Think of him — with the war plum' through. And the glorious old Red-White-and-Blue A-laughin' the news down over Jim, And the old man, bendin' over him — The surgeon turnin' away with tears 'At had n't leaked fer years and years, As the hand of the dyin...
Page 64 - The Raggedy Man— Ain't he a' awful kind Raggedy Man? Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man! An' The Raggedy Man, he knows most rhymes An' tells 'em, ef I be good, sometimes: Knows 'bout Giunts, an' Griffuns, an' Elves, An' the Squidgicum'Squees 'at swallers ther
Page 40 - Never heerd him speak but once Er twice in my life, — and first time was When the army broke out, and Jim he went, The old man backin...
Page 43 - Some way — jes' wrapped up in him ! — And many a time the word 'u'd come "At stirred him up like the tap of a drum — At Petersburg, fer instunce, where Jim rid right into their cannons there, And tuk 'em, and pinted "em...
Page 63 - O THE Raggedy Man! He works fer Pa; An' he's the goodest man ever you saw! He comes to our house every day, An' waters the horses, an
Page 42 - lowed 'at he'd had sich luck afore, Guessed he'd tackle her three years more. And the old man give him a colt he'd raised, And follered him over to Camp Ben Wade, And laid around fer a week er so, Watchin...