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 *ing word from the black-faced villain who handed us over the mutton?" he appealed to Jerry.

Jerry nodded.

"But they said the same about you in Vera Cruz," he added.

"Yis, an' they thought the same at Cerry Gordo," Sergeant Mulligan asserted. "An' the same they thought in Pueblo, whin the purty gurls cried to see us set out. But for all that we're still terrible able to punish flesh-an'-blood victuals. Wid full stomicks an' Scott to lade us on we go."