4
o'clock
Last night makes five nights I have sat up with him , and he has got so he can eat beef tea and crackers . My girl went back on me 'cause she said I was sitting up with some other girl . She said that Duffy story was too thin , but Duffy 's Ma was washing at my girl 's house and she proved what I said , and I was all right again . I slept all the forenoon the 4th , and then stayed with Duffy till 4 o'clock , and got a furlough and took my girl to the Soldiers ' Home . I had rather set up with Duffy , though . '' `` O , get out . You ca n't make me believe you had rather stay in a sick room and set up with a boy , than to take a girl to the 4th of July , '' said the grocery man , as he took a brush and wiped the saw dust off some bottles of peppersauce that he was taking out of a box .