Have you seen them?"
"Lord bless you, mister, them big generals don't come visitin' the likes
o' me. You kin see my house over thar among the trees. You kin search
it if you want to, but you won't find nothin'."
"I don't want to search your house. You can't hide a great army in a
house. I want to know if you've seen the Southern Army. I want to know
if you've heard anything about it."
"I ain't seed it. My sight's none too good, mister. Sometimes the
blazin' sun gits in my eyes and kinder blinds me for a long time.
Then, too, I'm bad of hearin'; but I'm a powerful good sleeper. When I
sleep I don't hear nothin', of course, an' nothin' wakes me up. I just
sleep on, sometimes dreamin' beautiful dreams. A million men wouldn't
wake me, an' mebbe a dozen armies or so have passed in the night while I
was sleepin' so good. I'd tell you anything I know, but them that knows
nothin' has nothin' to tell."
Warner's temper, although he had always practiced self-control, had
begun to rise, but he checked it, seeing that it would be a mere foolish
display of weakness in the face of the blank wall that confronted him.
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