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But we 'll go through if there 's only one man left to carry the flag over the works . I do n't suppose that we are any better than those who have already died , or got any better right to live . '' `` This is the dumbedest country for cuttin ' down trees the wrong way , '' Si sadly remarked , as he surveyed the abatis . `` It 's meaner 'n midnight murder . I 'd like to git hold o ' the pizen whelp what invented it . '' `` The devil invented abatis , just after he invented hell , and as an improvement on it , and just before he invented secession , '' Shorty judged hotly . `` When we git through them abatis there I 'm goin ' to kill everything I find , just to learn 'em to stop sich heathenish work .