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Si Klegg Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Si Klegg novel. A total of 1823 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Si Klegg.by John McElroy.Book One PREFACE."Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty,
Si Klegg.by John McElroy.Book One PREFACE."Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty, his Partner," were born more than 25 years ago in the brain of John McElroy, editor of The National Tribune, who invented the names and characters, outlined the general
- 1801 "Bad Ax, Wisconsin, a little ways from La Crosse."It was Shorty's turn to start, and it flashed upon him just where he had seen that squarish face. It was in an ambrotype that he carried in his breastpocket. He almost choked on the merrytho
- 1802 "Old Billings, who used to be Lieutenant-Colonel, is Provost-Marshal.He's Lieutenant-Colonel of our regiment. He'll be likely to give you a great song and dance, especially if he finds out that you belonged to the old regiment. But don'
- 1803 With a foreboding that the scene was going to be made unpleasant for him, Billings led the General into the guard-room.[Ill.u.s.tration: WHY, IT'S SHORTY! SAID THE GENERAL, RECOGNIZING HIM AT ONCE 129]"Why, it's Shorty," said the Gener
- 1804 "Very good, very good, indeed. You'll be an ornament to Headquarters."And the General, entering the room at that time, added: "Yes, you are as fine a looking soldier as one would wish to see, and an examaple to others. But you have not your Corporal'
- 1805 "Deer Bat: Got yore $100 all right, but doant send by that man again. He's shaky, and talks too much. Bring it yourself, or put it in an envelope directed to me, & drop it in my box. Yores, "Billings.""That's enough," said Shorty, with his mind in
- 1806 "I'm goin' to try to be half-white," he mentally resolved; "at least, as long's I'm north o' the Ohio River. When I'm back agin at the front, I kin take a rest from being respectable."He was alert, prompt, and observant, and before he was himsel
- 1807 "A Corporal from my Headquarters?" repeated the General, beginning to understand. "That's another development of that irrepressible Shorty."And he called: "Corp'l Elliott.""Yes, sir," responded Shorty, appearing at the door and saluting."Did yo
- 1808 "Were you out late last night?""I was," replied the second-comer, scanning his interrogator."Did you see a star?""I did.""What star was it?" "It was the Star of Bethlehem.""Right, my brother," responded the other, putting out his hand in a p
- 1809 "You will, eh?" sneered Shorty, covering him with a heavy Remington."How'd you like the looks o' that, old b.u.t.ternut? Your murderin' dirk aint deuce high. Move a step, and you'll know how it feels to have daylight through you."The "Captain" s
- 1810 "What was it?""The Star of Bethlehem.""You are right, my brother," said the man, extending his hand for the grip."This rotten star-and-brother rigmarole's making me sick," muttered Shorty, with a hasty glance to see that the man was alone, and gr
- 1811 "What d.a.m.ned nonsense is this, O'Brien?" asked Shorty angrily. "Are you drunk, or jest naturally addled? Come along with me and we'll--""Not for a thousand loives," groaned the Irishman. "Howly saints, fwhat is old Clootie after me for? Is it
- 1812 Are you too tired to move? Come on. We'll have a good wash, that'll take away some of the tiredness, then a big dinner, and a good bed tonight.Tomorrer mornin' we'll be as good as new.""I think I'd better git right on the next train and go back to
- 1813 "Yes," echoed Shorty, speaking for the first time since he had come into the house; "I feel as if I'd like to begin all over agin.""I wish you could begin all over agin," said Maria in a tone very different from her former one. "I'd like to cook
- 1814 Then his face grew hot with the thought that everyone saw through his transparent scheme to get an hour or two more with Maria."No," said Si, decisively. "You'll go back with me. Father and mother and 'Mandy are all anxious to see
- 1815 "Mustn't we eat none o' their pies?" asked the boys, with longing remembrance of the fragrant products of their mothers' ovens."Nary a pie. If I ketch a boy eatin' a pie after we cross the river I'll buck-and-gag hi
- 1816 "Spies nothin'!" said Si. "Why, them fellers hain't brains enough to tell a battery from a regiment, nor pluck enough to take a settin' hen offen her nest. Let them go at once.""Why, Corpril Elliott told us that eve
- 1817 "'Twas only a little mite o' terbacker," the man explained. "They'uns said they'uns was mouty hongry, and wanted t' know if I'd anything t'eat. I hadn't nothing, but I done had a little terbacker, whi
- 1818 THE YOUNGSTERS KEEP THEM BUSY WHILE THE TRAIN MOVES SOUTH.THE long fast had sharpened the zest the boys had for their first "soldier-breakfast." Until they got down to "real soldier-living" they could not feel that they were actually i
- 1819 "We're comin' to Stewart's Crick, Shorty," said Si, looking up from his paper. "Recollect that hill ovyr there? That's where they had that battery that the Colonel thought we wuz goin' to git. Great Scott, the mud a
- 1820 "Knowin' you was so anxious to see 'em, they've come up the road to meet you," interjected Shorty."It looks," continued Si, "as if they'd got news of the train and slipped out here to take it away from us. They
- 1821 They heard Monty Scruggs's baritone call: "Say, Alf, did you see me salt that feller that's bin yellin' and cussin' at me over there? He's cussin' now for something else. I think I got him right where he lived."&quo
- 1822 Their names's mud. They're now only part o' the real estate on the other side o' the crick. They're suddently become no good for poll-tax; only to be a.s.sessed by the acre.""So you're sure they can't do more harm to the bridge?""No more'n the
- 1823 "O, come off, Monty," called the more prosaic Gid Mackall; "you know we didn't have no artillery. If we'd had, we'd a blowed 'em clean offen the hill."The whistle summoned them to get aboard and move on.CHAPTER XXI.