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WERE THERE UNIONS OR CONFEDERATES IN HARG'S WOODS?

HAPPENS to be at the dormer window a couple of minutes later, and sees the soldiers at the turn in the Red Rock Road. Only about half of the squad was there. I wondered what had become of the rest—until three days later, when I meets them camped in Harg's woods, just about a half-mile away.

About the same time I notices that there's always some one, dressed in any kind of old clothes, where he can see the back door, and another where he can see the front door.

Dave notices these loafers, too.

"They're just stealing green corn and potatoes," says he. "Let them alone. It won't hurt us much and will give them colic."

"But, where do they come from?" I asks. 124