Miss Annie, she tried once to whup me 'cause I chunked rocks at her li'l chickens, but mighty little whuppin' she done.

All night we went chunking southwardit is well over a hundred miles from Constantinople to the upper entrance to the straitsand shook ourselves out of our blankets and the cinders into another of those blue-and-gold mornings which belong to this part of the world.

And as we went chunking down the strait that night and into Ak-Bash in the dark, two new forces were coming in.