Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-12-18
A TRUE STORY.

dTIS.
young lieutenant Of dragoons was en-
gagged with three or four Hungarans, who
after having received several smart strokes
from his sabre, managed to send ball into
his shoulder, to pierce his chest with d
thrust from lance, and to leave him fol
dead on the bank of the river.
On the opposite side of the stream, a
boatman and his wife had been watching
this unequal fight with tears Of desperation
But what could an old unarmed man do.
or pretty child of sixteen: However. the
old soldier-for such the boalman was
had no sooner seen the officer fall from his
horse than he. and his daughter rowed most
vigorously for the other side.
Then, when they had deposited the
wounded man in their boat, these worthy
people crossed the river again, bu, with
fanl hopes Of reaching the military hospital
in time
''Y on have been very hardly treated, my
boy" said The old guardsman to him "but
here am !, who have gone further still, and
come home"
The silence and the fixed attitude of
Lieutenant S. showed the extreme ago
discovered that the blood which was gath
erIng about the wound on his left side would
shortly terminate his existence. He turned
to his youthful daughter:
"Mary," he said, "you have heard me tell
of my brother; he died Of jus, such anoih-
er wound as this here. Well, now. had
there only been somebody by to suck the
hurt his life would have been saved"
The boatman then landed, and went to
look for two three soldiers TO help him
to carry the officer, leaving bis daughter in
charge of hin. The girl looked a. The suf
(erer for a second or tvo. Wha, was her
EN- oion when she heard him sgh so deep
| ly, not that he was resgning life in the first
flower of his age. but that he should die
without a mothers kiss.
"My Mother! my dear, dear mother J"
said he, 81 die wilhout-''
Her womsn's hear, told her what he
would have said. Her bosom heaved with
sympathy, and her eyes ran over.
Then she remembered what her father
had said she thought how her uncle's life
| nigh. have been saved. In an instant,
quicker than thought, she tore open The Of
fcer's coat, and the generous girl recalled
him TO life with her lips.
Amid this holy occupation the sound Of
footsteds was heard, and The blushing hero
inc fled to the other end of the boat
Judge Of her fathers surprise, as he came
up with two soldiers, when he saw Lieu
tenant s., whom he expected to find
dead. open his ewes and ask for his deliver
The bnatman looked at bis child and saw
it all. The poor girl came to him with her
head bent down. She was about to excuse
ier>elf when the father, embracing her with
enthusiasm. raised her spirits, aud The off
Ger thanked her in these prophetic words ::
You have saved my life it belongs to
you"
After this she tended him, and became
his nurse; nothing would he take but from
her hand. No wonder ,ha, with such
nurse he at length recovered. Mary was
as pretty as she was good.
Meanwhile Master Cupid, who is very
busy in surfl cases, gave him another wound;
and there was only one way TO cure il-so
very deep it was.
The boaman's daughter became Madame
Her husband is now, not simple liu,en-
ant, but acknowledgement, and the boat
mans daughter is as elegant and graceful a
lady as any that you see al court.
Your NEIGHBoR's HENs.-Mr. A. kept
his hens shut up. He was no, going to
his neighbor's hens. One morning he saw
a couple digging in bis early pea bed, and
out he went with murder in his heart, but
the hens flew over into neighbor BIS gar
den; whereupon A. called over to him very
angrily that he would shoot the next hen
he saw on his side Of the fence if he did not
shut them up, which B. declared he would
not do, and if A. was fool enough to shool
them he might do ii, for all he cared. A.
was IS good as his word, and day after day
B. was salu,ed with the smell of gunpowder,
and message thrown over the fence with
every fat pullet, ''there's another chicken
for your dinner - until at length, not find
ing the usual supply, B. called over one
morning to ne;ghbor A. to know the reason.
This awakened inquiry, when it was dis
covered that A. had been shooting his own
hens as they occasionally escaped through
a hole in the coop, and in his anger at his
neighbor for the supposed trespass had fur
nished him sundIy good dinners. No
doubt he was lille angry at first, and
thought any cunning trick after that better
than shooting his neighbours hens.
Why should you be justified in picking
the pockets of a vender of engravings p
Guv 'em up. Because he has pictures.