Two Little Confederates

t was a man's step, it must be Uncle Balla's; they heard horses trampling and people talking. In a second the door was flung open, and a man strode into the room, followed by

ting it with a jerk emptied them and all the bedclothes out into the middle of the floor in a heap. At this all the other men laughed. A minute more and he had drawn his sword. The boys expected no less than to be immediately kill

n; and Willy, who had become tangled in the bedclothes, and had been a li

ened the doorway and thei

she cried. "Aren't you ash

ts," said the man with t

sprang forward and snatched the boys' clothes from the hands of a man who had take

as she braved the intruders, the grandest person they had ever seen. Her face was white, but h

entry, and in the house. The smoke-house was open and so were the doors of all the other

ad secured all the bacon that had been left in the smoke-house, as well as all other eatables they could find. It was a queer sight, to see the fellows s

this time come up from the

to Balla, who was standing near expostul

e?" ask

u the carri

the kerid

u are, so you need no

keridge driver.

we want to know, quick," said the fellow rough

Marster, how I know anything of the horses ef they

eizing him by the shoulder and jerking him angrily around. "If you don't show us pret

but the pistol, which was at old Bal

at way. I ain't ready to die yit-an' I ain'

threats, for the boys' mother made her appearance. She was about to bid Ba

aimed the boys, recognizing the black ca

ugh!" exclaimed the old driver, forge

ase," he pleaded, pushing through the group that surro

y laughe

'T TECK MY HORSES, EF YOU

ther, and flinging their arms

riding across the fields; and in a l

'cross them fields," said Balla, looking af

the plantation had been carried off, except only two or three