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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 7: Mobile, the Gulf city. (search)
his heels and announced with much dignity Sir, I am Muggins! Didn't know you, Muggins, responded the shouter, who fortunately had not taken fighting whisky. Beg pardon, Muggins! Hurrah for Peacock.! Yah-a-h See here, my good fellow, I'm Peacock! repeated Spring Chicken. The thunder you are! You can't be two people! Sir! responded Spring Chicken, with even greater dignity, I do not-hic — desire to argue with you. I am Peacock! The man laughed. The Peacock I mean is a northPeacock! The man laughed. The Peacock I mean is a northern man -- I'm a northern man, yelled the now irate Spring Chicken. Curse you, sir! what are my principles to you? I'll cut your ear off! And it was this peaceful proposition that attracted our attention, in time to prevent any trouble with the ugly knife he drew from his back. Spring Chicken had remained passive during the recital of the more sober worldling. Sundry muttered oaths had sufficed him until it was over, when he made the lucid explanation: Reas'l didl't — hic-dam