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Well, you’re the fust un I’ve seed that knowed, an’ I’ve axed lots of ’em. An’ I reckon our men wusn’t the only ones. That gang o’ Germans that you got a medal fer ketchin’ must ha’ been kinder hazy in their minds about the needcessity o’ fightin’. [He pats himself significantly on the stomach] I’ll bet they had some sort o’ inside trouble—like Rufe.

[Laughing]

I know dern well they did!

How’d you find it out, Sid? You couldn’t talk their talk, could you?

No, but I could tell by the way they acted. Soon as each seed t’other we both started to run. But I looked back first. When I seed they wus a-runnin’ away, too, I tuk after ’em a-hollerin’ an’ shootin’ like hell had broke loose, an’ the whole bunch surrendered!

An’ they give you a medal fer it! Why, I could ha’ done that!