human
What do you see, Monty?
gpt
See? answered he.
human
Just lots and gobs. I see old Joe Johnston over there, with Pat Cleburne, and Hood and Bragg, and Joe Wheeler. They're all together, and pulling off their coats, and rolling up their sleeves, and shaking their fists at the 200th Ind., and daring it to come on.
gpt
Tell 'em not to sweat. Just hold their horses. We'll be over presently, shouted the others, with yells of laughter.
human
What else do you see?
gpt
I see old Jeff Davis there, with his Cabinet of traitors. He's writing a fresh proclamation to his people, with his blind eye, and has got his good one fixed on the 200th Ind., which he's telling Joe Johnston is bound to give him more trouble than all the rest o' the army.
human
Good! Good! yelled the rest.
gpt
So we will. Old Jeff's right for once. What else do you see?
human
Stop that, my man, said one of the Aids savagely.
gpt
You're disturbing us.
human
Go ahead, and don't mind 'em, shouted the others.
gpt
They're only Second Lieutenants any way. Tell us what you see.
human
I see way by Richmond, old Unconditional Surrender Grant's got Bob Lee by the throat, and's just wipin' up the State of Virginny with him. Lee's eyes is bulging out like gooseberries on a limb, and his tongue's hanging down like a dog's on a hot day--
gpt
Get down off that stump at once, and go back to your place,
human
Don't mind him. He's only a staff officer. He can't order you. Go ahead,
gpt
I see a couple o' young Second Lieutenants,