Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-07-30
From the Iris and Odd-Fellow's Mirror.
One of the .Es HOys y

From the Iris and Odd Fellows Mirror
One of the .EB 'Hoys
Hearing that there had been a new
arrival of troops, We FASTENED to our
encampment, arriving just in time to
catch the following from regular brui-
ser:
80 Thunder! Mr.. Military, you
don't rally say, you wont have fight
again for week Il Il smash something
afore that time | was at Fort Hall,
Lewis River, Oregon, when Pota-
watamie chnm of mine, dropped in for
powder. | had spread myself out to
dry ON the Devils baston, which as
guess you know, is near the gate; so
you see, | seed him as he come H.
"Well Beautiful" seq I--for | alters
calls him that, because he is SO con-
temptlously ugly-"what's the woods
ddhe to you, that you come into the
Fort?"
clio! Tramp seq he, "is that
you"
.Jist as he said this l. seed his eye,
and | knowd in minnt He'll was
loose somewhere. and | tell you Mr..
Military, | made the distance between
US short. in hurry.
"What is it, you son of copper
mine, what is it., that's shinin out of
your eyes?-let's have some of it, for
like its looks"
! seed he was Dustin with some kind
of gorihcaiion, when jist as | was get
tin sort O. so,-here he made face
which would have frightened horse
the red devil of the woods put him
self up in the ali higher than my head,
and screamed out, you might heard
him mile, 1WAR WITH MEXI-
co." My>bowels, didn't jump.
s'Wo' seq |; wha, do you say, you an
gel of mercy!' Then up he jumps
agin, enough higher than my head, and
gin. the regular Ranger war whoop,
what would make mans heart Jump
out of his mouth, what wasent use to
hearin it. "War with Mexico, agin
the States!" seq he. "GIory to God!"
seq /, | couldn', help it, Mr.. Military;
was with Texas all the war;I know'd
the butchers; | reckon | dismissed a
few Of 'em at San Jacinto, with my
best specs to their master. Here he
pointed downward, with his finger, as
though his mind was travelling in that
direction Terrible Thunder! Mis-.
ter, l tell you l howled Crockett in
their ears! Ha, ha, Pll show EN- how
/ did it. Palo Alto drank the hot
blood of men of my kindred; men of
my own home fell there. Powerful
vengeance! Mexico agin the States |!
have battle as soon as you can, Mis-
ter"
"Howsumdever, as / was saying.
my chum, Beautiful, the abomnible H.
gin, yelled out, "War With Mexico a.
gin the States!' - Pilgrims Progress
but | was off in hurry there was no.
thing could hold me, then, mind l tell
you. We (for Beautiful was about
Esthe terrible animal will always foller
) me; he seq he's my servant, cause
saved his life once, after hard fghtn'
for it, which was no great shakes Of
me, cause he's got nine of EN- as
was saying, we soon struck the Mis-
souri,, and hailed steamer. Nobody,
all the way here, would ever take a
cent of US for passage money, or any
thing else, as soon as they found on!
we were bound for the war. Some
old preacher Teller, and good man he
was, too, gave sermon on the boat
we cum to Orleans in. He said as
how it was hard that volunteers to the
war should 60 barefoot and short o
clothes. / knowd in minnit, he was
,hintin at me and old scalp-lock and
sure enough, after he was done, some
chap takes up collection in his pate
case, 10 buy us shoes and stockings
After he was gone all round, he calls