Si Klegg: Si and Shorty meet MrRosenbaum, the spy, who relates his adventures . cks on, defendinhis country. Si whistled softly to himself. Ill do it. Shorty,he said, and repeated the address to make sure. The crisis soon passed, however, and the morningfound Shorty bright and cheerful, though weak. Si how to get the whisky to would never do to let him know that he had gottenit especially for him. That would have been so con-trary to Sis past as to arouse suspicion. He finallydecided to lay it where it would seem that someonepassing had dropped it, and Shorty could not he
Si Klegg: Si and Shorty meet MrRosenbaum, the spy, who relates his adventures . cks on, defendinhis country. Si whistled softly to himself. Ill do it. Shorty,he said, and repeated the address to make sure. The crisis soon passed, however, and the morningfound Shorty bright and cheerful, though weak. Si how to get the whisky to would never do to let him know that he had gottenit especially for him. That would have been so con-trary to Sis past as to arouse suspicion. He finallydecided to lay it where it would seem that someonepassing had dropped it, and Shorty could not helpfinding it. The plan worked all right. Shorty pickedit up in a few minutes after Si had deposited it, andmade quite an ado over his treasure trove. Splendid applejack, he said, tasting it; littlebitter, but that probably comes from their using dog- SHORTYS CORRESPONDENT. 157 wood in the fires when theyre stilhn. They know that dogwoodll make the liquor bitter, but theyre too all-fired lazy to go after any other kind o wood. He drank, and as he drank his spirits rose. After. SHORTY WANTS TO FIGHT GROUNDHOG,the first dram he thought he would clean around thetent, and make their grounds look neater than any-body elses. After the second he turned his attentionto his arms and accouterments. After the third hefelt like going out on a scout and finding some rebels. 158 SI KLEGG. to vary the monoiony of the camp-Hfe. After thefourth, Groundhog, unluckily for himself, camealong, and Shorty remembered that he had long owedthe teamster a licking, and he felt that the debtshould not be allowed to run any longer. He orderedGroundhog to halt and receive his dues. The team-ster demurred, but Shorty was obdurate, and beganpreparations to put his intention into operation,when the Orderlj^-Sergeant came down through thecompany street distributing mail. Shorty, he said, entirely ignoring the bellicosityof the scene, heres a letter for you. Shortys first thought was to look at the
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