Si Klegg Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Si Klegg novel. A total of 1823 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Si Klegg.by John McElroy.Book One PREFACE."Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty,
Si Klegg.by John McElroy.Book One PREFACE."Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty, his Partner," were born more than 25 years ago in the brain of John McElroy, editor of The National Tribune, who invented the names and characters, outlined the general
- 1001 "'Twas only a little mite o' terbacker," the man explained. "They'uns said they'uns was mouty hongry, and wanted t' know if I'd anything t'eat. I hadn't nothing, but I done had a little terbacker, whi
- 1002 THE YOUNGSTERS KEEP THEM BUSY WHILE THE TRAIN MOVES SOUTH.THE long fast had sharpened the zest the boys had for their first "soldier-breakfast." Until they got down to "real soldier-living" they could not feel that they were actually i
- 1003 "We're comin' to Stewart's Crick, Shorty," said Si, looking up from his paper. "Recollect that hill ovyr there? That's where they had that battery that the Colonel thought we wuz goin' to git. Great Scott, the mud a
- 1004 "Knowin' you was so anxious to see 'em, they've come up the road to meet you," interjected Shorty."It looks," continued Si, "as if they'd got news of the train and slipped out here to take it away from us. They
- 1005 They heard Monty Scruggs's baritone call: "Say, Alf, did you see me salt that feller that's bin yellin' and cussin' at me over there? He's cussin' now for something else. I think I got him right where he lived."&quo
- 1006 Their names's mud. They're now only part o' the real estate on the other side o' the crick. They're suddently become no good for poll-tax; only to be a.s.sessed by the acre.""So you're sure they can't do more h
- 1007 "O, come off, Monty," called the more prosaic Gid Mackall; "you know we didn't have no artillery. If we'd had, we'd a blowed 'em clean offen the hill."The whistle summoned them to get aboard and move on.CHAPTER XXI.
- 1008 Si Klegg.by John McElroy.Book Five PREFACE "Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty, his Partner," were born years ago in the brain of John McElroy, Editor of The National Tribune. These sketches are the original ones published in The National T
- 1009 Si's weakness made him peevish and fretful, and Shorty was not a great deal better."It's an awful risk to have an old man and a civilian come down here into camp," Si complained. "And he oughtn't to go about alone. He's
- 1010 "But, Captain.""I'm no Captain, neither. I'm plain Jim Crimmins, Quartermaster-Sergeant, in charge o' this corral, that you're stealin'around. I'm comin' out there to break every bone in your body. You inf
- 1011 "Better let me try my hand," said the Deacon. "You've bin away from the farm for so long you've probably lost the knack. I'm a famous milker.""You'll play fair?" said the milker doubtfully."Yes; just
- 1012 "I brung her in.""You're just the man I'm looking for," returned the officer. Then turning to a Sergeant who had just come up at the end of a squad, he said: "Here, Sergeant, take charge of this citizen and this cow, and
- 1013 "Good-by, boys," piped out Si. "I'll be back soon. Don't bring on the big battle till I do. I want to help. Just skirmish around and push the rebels back into the woods while I'm gone, and hive 'em up for a good lickin&#
- 1014 "Blazes and brimstone," exploded the Yard-Master; "how in the devil's name do you suppose I can tell anything about the trains going out? I'm just pestered to death by such fool questions, while the life's being worried out o
- 1015 Just then the whistle blew for a stop."What'n the world are they stoppin' here for?" groaned Si. "Some woman's got a dozen aigs or a pound o' b.u.t.ter that she wants to send to town. I s'pose we'll stop here u
- 1016 She was rent by the first spasm of womanly jealousy that any other woman should come between her brother and his mother and sisters."Don't be cross, Maria," pleaded Annabel. "I didn't know nothin' of it.You know I've bee
- 1017 "Sergeant!" e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.ed Si, Shorty and the Deacon, in the same breath."Are you sure it's Sergeant?""Yes, it's Sergeant," said Maria, spelling the t.i.tle out. "Who in the world do you s'pose it'
- 1018 "Is it really?" said Annabel, whose tears were beginning to come. "It don't sound like it. Sargint don't sound near so big as Corporal. I always thought that Corporal was the very purtiest t.i.tle in the whole army. None o' t
- 1019 "Bad Ax, Wisconsin, a little ways from La Crosse."It was Shorty's turn to start, and it flashed upon him just where he had seen that squarish face. It was in an ambrotype that he carried in his breastpocket. He almost choked on the merrytho
- 1020 "Old Billings, who used to be Lieutenant-Colonel, is Provost-Marshal.He's Lieutenant-Colonel of our regiment. He'll be likely to give you a great song and dance, especially if he finds out that you belonged to the old regiment. But don'
- 1021 With a foreboding that the scene was going to be made unpleasant for him, Billings led the General into the guard-room.[Ill.u.s.tration: WHY, IT'S SHORTY! SAID THE GENERAL, RECOGNIZING HIM AT ONCE 129]"Why, it's Shorty," said the Gener
- 1022 "Very good, very good, indeed. You'll be an ornament to Headquarters."And the General, entering the room at that time, added: "Yes, you are as fine a looking soldier as one would wish to see, and an examaple to others. But you have not
- 1023 "Deer Bat: Got yore $100 all right, but doant send by that man again. He's shaky, and talks too much. Bring it yourself, or put it in an envelope directed to me, & drop it in my box. Yores, "Billings.""That's enough," sa
- 1024 "I'm goin' to try to be half-white," he mentally resolved; "at least, as long's I'm north o' the Ohio River. When I'm back agin at the front, I kin take a rest from being respectable."He was alert, prompt,
- 1025 "A Corporal from my Headquarters?" repeated the General, beginning to understand. "That's another development of that irrepressible Shorty."And he called: "Corp'l Elliott.""Yes, sir," responded Shorty, app
- 1026 "Were you out late last night?""I was," replied the second-comer, scanning his interrogator."Did you see a star?""I did.""What star was it?" "It was the Star of Bethlehem.""Right, my brother
- 1027 "You will, eh?" sneered Shorty, covering him with a heavy Remington."How'd you like the looks o' that, old b.u.t.ternut? Your murderin' dirk aint deuce high. Move a step, and you'll know how it feels to have daylight thr
- 1028 "What was it?""The Star of Bethlehem.""You are right, my brother," said the man, extending his hand for the grip."This rotten star-and-brother rigmarole's making me sick," muttered Shorty, with a hasty glance t
- 1029 "What d.a.m.ned nonsense is this, O'Brien?" asked Shorty angrily. "Are you drunk, or jest naturally addled? Come along with me and we'll--""Not for a thousand loives," groaned the Irishman. "Howly saints, fwhat
- 1030 Are you too tired to move? Come on. We'll have a good wash, that'll take away some of the tiredness, then a big dinner, and a good bed tonight.Tomorrer mornin' we'll be as good as new.""I think I'd better git right on th
- 1031 "Yes," echoed Shorty, speaking for the first time since he had come into the house; "I feel as if I'd like to begin all over agin.""I wish you could begin all over agin," said Maria in a tone very different from her form
- 1032 Then his face grew hot with the thought that everyone saw through his transparent scheme to get an hour or two more with Maria."No," said Si, decisively. "You'll go back with me. Father and mother and 'Mandy are all anxious to see
- 1033 "Mustn't we eat none o' their pies?" asked the boys, with longing remembrance of the fragrant products of their mothers' ovens."Nary a pie. If I ketch a boy eatin' a pie after we cross the river I'll buck-and-gag hi
- 1034 "Spies nothin'!" said Si. "Why, them fellers hain't brains enough to tell a battery from a regiment, nor pluck enough to take a settin' hen offen her nest. Let them go at once.""Why, Corpril Elliott told us that eve
- 1035 "'Twas only a little mite o' terbacker," the man explained. "They'uns said they'uns was mouty hongry, and wanted t' know if I'd anything t'eat. I hadn't nothing, but I done had a little terbacker, whi
- 1036 THE YOUNGSTERS KEEP THEM BUSY WHILE THE TRAIN MOVES SOUTH.THE long fast had sharpened the zest the boys had for their first "soldier-breakfast." Until they got down to "real soldier-living" they could not feel that they were actually i
- 1037 "We're comin' to Stewart's Crick, Shorty," said Si, looking up from his paper. "Recollect that hill ovyr there? That's where they had that battery that the Colonel thought we wuz goin' to git. Great Scott, the mud a
- 1038 "Knowin' you was so anxious to see 'em, they've come up the road to meet you," interjected Shorty."It looks," continued Si, "as if they'd got news of the train and slipped out here to take it away from us. They
- 1039 They heard Monty Scruggs's baritone call: "Say, Alf, did you see me salt that feller that's bin yellin' and cussin' at me over there? He's cussin' now for something else. I think I got him right where he lived."&quo
- 1040 Their names's mud. They're now only part o' the real estate on the other side o' the crick. They're suddently become no good for poll-tax; only to be a.s.sessed by the acre.""So you're sure they can't do more h
- 1041 "O, come off, Monty," called the more prosaic Gid Mackall; "you know we didn't have no artillery. If we'd had, we'd a blowed 'em clean offen the hill."The whistle summoned them to get aboard and move on.CHAPTER XXI.
- 1042 Si Klegg.by John McElroy.Book Five PREFACE "Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty, his Partner," were born years ago in the brain of John McElroy, Editor of The National Tribune. These sketches are the original ones published in The National T
- 1043 Si's weakness made him peevish and fretful, and Shorty was not a great deal better."It's an awful risk to have an old man and a civilian come down here into camp," Si complained. "And he oughtn't to go about alone. He's
- 1044 "But, Captain.""I'm no Captain, neither. I'm plain Jim Crimmins, Quartermaster-Sergeant, in charge o' this corral, that you're stealin'around. I'm comin' out there to break every bone in your body. You inf
- 1045 "Better let me try my hand," said the Deacon. "You've bin away from the farm for so long you've probably lost the knack. I'm a famous milker.""You'll play fair?" said the milker doubtfully."Yes; just
- 1046 "I brung her in.""You're just the man I'm looking for," returned the officer. Then turning to a Sergeant who had just come up at the end of a squad, he said: "Here, Sergeant, take charge of this citizen and this cow, and
- 1047 "Good-by, boys," piped out Si. "I'll be back soon. Don't bring on the big battle till I do. I want to help. Just skirmish around and push the rebels back into the woods while I'm gone, and hive 'em up for a good lickin&#
- 1048 "Blazes and brimstone," exploded the Yard-Master; "how in the devil's name do you suppose I can tell anything about the trains going out? I'm just pestered to death by such fool questions, while the life's being worried out o
- 1049 Just then the whistle blew for a stop."What'n the world are they stoppin' here for?" groaned Si. "Some woman's got a dozen aigs or a pound o' b.u.t.ter that she wants to send to town. I s'pose we'll stop here u
- 1050 She was rent by the first spasm of womanly jealousy that any other woman should come between her brother and his mother and sisters."Don't be cross, Maria," pleaded Annabel. "I didn't know nothin' of it.You know I've bee
- 1051 "Sergeant!" e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.ed Si, Shorty and the Deacon, in the same breath."Are you sure it's Sergeant?""Yes, it's Sergeant," said Maria, spelling the t.i.tle out. "Who in the world do you s'pose it'
- 1052 "Is it really?" said Annabel, whose tears were beginning to come. "It don't sound like it. Sargint don't sound near so big as Corporal. I always thought that Corporal was the very purtiest t.i.tle in the whole army. None o' t
- 1053 "Bad Ax, Wisconsin, a little ways from La Crosse."It was Shorty's turn to start, and it flashed upon him just where he had seen that squarish face. It was in an ambrotype that he carried in his breastpocket. He almost choked on the merrytho
- 1054 "Old Billings, who used to be Lieutenant-Colonel, is Provost-Marshal.He's Lieutenant-Colonel of our regiment. He'll be likely to give you a great song and dance, especially if he finds out that you belonged to the old regiment. But don'
- 1055 With a foreboding that the scene was going to be made unpleasant for him, Billings led the General into the guard-room.[Ill.u.s.tration: WHY, IT'S SHORTY! SAID THE GENERAL, RECOGNIZING HIM AT ONCE 129]"Why, it's Shorty," said the Gener
- 1056 "Very good, very good, indeed. You'll be an ornament to Headquarters."And the General, entering the room at that time, added: "Yes, you are as fine a looking soldier as one would wish to see, and an examaple to others. But you have not
- 1057 "Deer Bat: Got yore $100 all right, but doant send by that man again. He's shaky, and talks too much. Bring it yourself, or put it in an envelope directed to me, & drop it in my box. Yores, "Billings.""That's enough," sa
- 1058 "I'm goin' to try to be half-white," he mentally resolved; "at least, as long's I'm north o' the Ohio River. When I'm back agin at the front, I kin take a rest from being respectable."He was alert, prompt,
- 1059 "A Corporal from my Headquarters?" repeated the General, beginning to understand. "That's another development of that irrepressible Shorty."And he called: "Corp'l Elliott.""Yes, sir," responded Shorty, app
- 1060 "Were you out late last night?""I was," replied the second-comer, scanning his interrogator."Did you see a star?""I did.""What star was it?" "It was the Star of Bethlehem.""Right, my brother
- 1061 "You will, eh?" sneered Shorty, covering him with a heavy Remington."How'd you like the looks o' that, old b.u.t.ternut? Your murderin' dirk aint deuce high. Move a step, and you'll know how it feels to have daylight thr
- 1062 "What was it?""The Star of Bethlehem.""You are right, my brother," said the man, extending his hand for the grip."This rotten star-and-brother rigmarole's making me sick," muttered Shorty, with a hasty glance t
- 1063 "What d.a.m.ned nonsense is this, O'Brien?" asked Shorty angrily. "Are you drunk, or jest naturally addled? Come along with me and we'll--""Not for a thousand loives," groaned the Irishman. "Howly saints, fwhat
- 1064 Are you too tired to move? Come on. We'll have a good wash, that'll take away some of the tiredness, then a big dinner, and a good bed tonight.Tomorrer mornin' we'll be as good as new.""I think I'd better git right on th
- 1065 "Yes," echoed Shorty, speaking for the first time since he had come into the house; "I feel as if I'd like to begin all over agin.""I wish you could begin all over agin," said Maria in a tone very different from her form
- 1066 Then his face grew hot with the thought that everyone saw through his transparent scheme to get an hour or two more with Maria."No," said Si, decisively. "You'll go back with me. Father and mother and 'Mandy are all anxious to see
- 1067 "Mustn't we eat none o' their pies?" asked the boys, with longing remembrance of the fragrant products of their mothers' ovens."Nary a pie. If I ketch a boy eatin' a pie after we cross the river I'll buck-and-gag hi
- 1068 "Spies nothin'!" said Si. "Why, them fellers hain't brains enough to tell a battery from a regiment, nor pluck enough to take a settin' hen offen her nest. Let them go at once.""Why, Corpril Elliott told us that eve
- 1069 "'Twas only a little mite o' terbacker," the man explained. "They'uns said they'uns was mouty hongry, and wanted t' know if I'd anything t'eat. I hadn't nothing, but I done had a little terbacker, whi
- 1070 THE YOUNGSTERS KEEP THEM BUSY WHILE THE TRAIN MOVES SOUTH.THE long fast had sharpened the zest the boys had for their first "soldier-breakfast." Until they got down to "real soldier-living" they could not feel that they were actually i
- 1071 "We're comin' to Stewart's Crick, Shorty," said Si, looking up from his paper. "Recollect that hill ovyr there? That's where they had that battery that the Colonel thought we wuz goin' to git. Great Scott, the mud a
- 1072 "Knowin' you was so anxious to see 'em, they've come up the road to meet you," interjected Shorty."It looks," continued Si, "as if they'd got news of the train and slipped out here to take it away from us. They
- 1073 They heard Monty Scruggs's baritone call: "Say, Alf, did you see me salt that feller that's bin yellin' and cussin' at me over there? He's cussin' now for something else. I think I got him right where he lived."&quo
- 1074 Their names's mud. They're now only part o' the real estate on the other side o' the crick. They're suddently become no good for poll-tax; only to be a.s.sessed by the acre.""So you're sure they can't do more h
- 1075 "O, come off, Monty," called the more prosaic Gid Mackall; "you know we didn't have no artillery. If we'd had, we'd a blowed 'em clean offen the hill."The whistle summoned them to get aboard and move on.CHAPTER XXI.
- 1076 Si Klegg.by John McElroy.Book Five PREFACE "Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty, his Partner," were born years ago in the brain of John McElroy, Editor of The National Tribune. These sketches are the original ones published in The National T
- 1077 Si's weakness made him peevish and fretful, and Shorty was not a great deal better."It's an awful risk to have an old man and a civilian come down here into camp," Si complained. "And he oughtn't to go about alone. He's
- 1078 "But, Captain.""I'm no Captain, neither. I'm plain Jim Crimmins, Quartermaster-Sergeant, in charge o' this corral, that you're stealin'around. I'm comin' out there to break every bone in your body. You inf
- 1079 "Better let me try my hand," said the Deacon. "You've bin away from the farm for so long you've probably lost the knack. I'm a famous milker.""You'll play fair?" said the milker doubtfully."Yes; just
- 1080 "I brung her in.""You're just the man I'm looking for," returned the officer. Then turning to a Sergeant who had just come up at the end of a squad, he said: "Here, Sergeant, take charge of this citizen and this cow, and
- 1081 "Good-by, boys," piped out Si. "I'll be back soon. Don't bring on the big battle till I do. I want to help. Just skirmish around and push the rebels back into the woods while I'm gone, and hive 'em up for a good lickin&#
- 1082 "Blazes and brimstone," exploded the Yard-Master; "how in the devil's name do you suppose I can tell anything about the trains going out? I'm just pestered to death by such fool questions, while the life's being worried out o
- 1083 Just then the whistle blew for a stop."What'n the world are they stoppin' here for?" groaned Si. "Some woman's got a dozen aigs or a pound o' b.u.t.ter that she wants to send to town. I s'pose we'll stop here u
- 1084 She was rent by the first spasm of womanly jealousy that any other woman should come between her brother and his mother and sisters."Don't be cross, Maria," pleaded Annabel. "I didn't know nothin' of it.You know I've bee
- 1085 "Sergeant!" e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.ed Si, Shorty and the Deacon, in the same breath."Are you sure it's Sergeant?""Yes, it's Sergeant," said Maria, spelling the t.i.tle out. "Who in the world do you s'pose it'
- 1086 "Is it really?" said Annabel, whose tears were beginning to come. "It don't sound like it. Sargint don't sound near so big as Corporal. I always thought that Corporal was the very purtiest t.i.tle in the whole army. None o' t
- 1087 "Bad Ax, Wisconsin, a little ways from La Crosse."It was Shorty's turn to start, and it flashed upon him just where he had seen that squarish face. It was in an ambrotype that he carried in his breastpocket. He almost choked on the merrytho
- 1088 "Old Billings, who used to be Lieutenant-Colonel, is Provost-Marshal.He's Lieutenant-Colonel of our regiment. He'll be likely to give you a great song and dance, especially if he finds out that you belonged to the old regiment. But don'
- 1089 With a foreboding that the scene was going to be made unpleasant for him, Billings led the General into the guard-room.[Ill.u.s.tration: WHY, IT'S SHORTY! SAID THE GENERAL, RECOGNIZING HIM AT ONCE 129]"Why, it's Shorty," said the Gener
- 1090 "Very good, very good, indeed. You'll be an ornament to Headquarters."And the General, entering the room at that time, added: "Yes, you are as fine a looking soldier as one would wish to see, and an examaple to others. But you have not
- 1091 "Deer Bat: Got yore $100 all right, but doant send by that man again. He's shaky, and talks too much. Bring it yourself, or put it in an envelope directed to me, & drop it in my box. Yores, "Billings.""That's enough," sa
- 1092 "I'm goin' to try to be half-white," he mentally resolved; "at least, as long's I'm north o' the Ohio River. When I'm back agin at the front, I kin take a rest from being respectable."He was alert, prompt,
- 1093 "A Corporal from my Headquarters?" repeated the General, beginning to understand. "That's another development of that irrepressible Shorty."And he called: "Corp'l Elliott.""Yes, sir," responded Shorty, app
- 1094 "Were you out late last night?""I was," replied the second-comer, scanning his interrogator."Did you see a star?""I did.""What star was it?" "It was the Star of Bethlehem.""Right, my brother
- 1095 "You will, eh?" sneered Shorty, covering him with a heavy Remington."How'd you like the looks o' that, old b.u.t.ternut? Your murderin' dirk aint deuce high. Move a step, and you'll know how it feels to have daylight thr
- 1096 "What was it?""The Star of Bethlehem.""You are right, my brother," said the man, extending his hand for the grip."This rotten star-and-brother rigmarole's making me sick," muttered Shorty, with a hasty glance t
- 1097 "What d.a.m.ned nonsense is this, O'Brien?" asked Shorty angrily. "Are you drunk, or jest naturally addled? Come along with me and we'll--""Not for a thousand loives," groaned the Irishman. "Howly saints, fwhat
- 1098 Are you too tired to move? Come on. We'll have a good wash, that'll take away some of the tiredness, then a big dinner, and a good bed tonight.Tomorrer mornin' we'll be as good as new.""I think I'd better git right on th
- 1099 "Yes," echoed Shorty, speaking for the first time since he had come into the house; "I feel as if I'd like to begin all over agin.""I wish you could begin all over agin," said Maria in a tone very different from her form
- 1100 Then his face grew hot with the thought that everyone saw through his transparent scheme to get an hour or two more with Maria."No," said Si, decisively. "You'll go back with me. Father and mother and 'Mandy are all anxious to see