" "They'll keep comin' as long as a lean man can scrouge in.

Scrouge southwest a li'l more, Racey, and look at yore chin.

Now it would be cavalry, with accouterments jingling and horses scrouging in the close-packed ranks; else a battery of the viperish looking little rapid-fire guns, or a battery of heavier cannon, with cloth fittings over their ugly snouts, like muzzled dogs whose bark is bad and whose bite is worse.

I s'pose maybe he is, but the po' little thing mus' feel sort o' scrouged with 'em, ef he's got 'em allthe Joneses' an' the Simses'.

Not that we are parsimonious, but we prefer to see the pictures without being scrouged.