Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-22
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5Ra November, 1851
Dsdr Messrs. Ediiors--B Billy Briggs and
L. still remain in the army. The other
morning was standing by him in our
tent. tsHand me them scabbarts, Jimmy" /"
said he IScabbards, said !, looking
around, ayes, boots, mean. ~ Billy ar
ranged himselfin his sca6bards-a'd dilap-
idRted pair of fashionable boots and
stood up in very erect and dignitied
manner. aThose boots of mine, dou't
think, were any relation to that beef we
had for dinner to-day, JIMMY sail be-
'.No, p said /, "If they were only as tough
as that beef, and rice UtrtG. It would have
been better. - y tss3 iae1 ~
ss" 81 say, CrNdle,,' he called out, "where
are you7" Cradle was our contTaband, u
genuine darkey, with a f1ot 0f extraor1l.
nary length and SEtFIIlll TO match CIV
log him queer look about those extremi-
ties. MWhat do you call him Cradle for,
Billy7 said /; that's queer name. !" HWhat
would you call him, Jimmy II he amt IL
cradle what's he put on rockers for 2''-
Cradle appeared with pair OF perforated
stockings dts no use,H said Billy, look
ing at them. 4Them stockings will do to
put on a sore throat, but they won't do for
feet. Its humiliation for man like mt
to be without stockings man may be
bald headed and its genteel, but TO be bare
footed is ruination. The sleeves Is good,
too, he added, thoughtfully, "but the feet
are gone. There is something about the
heels of stockings and the elbows Of stove
pipes in this world, that is all wrong Jim
my" HaiJ r
Il "A supply of stockings had come that
day and were just being given out; pair
ofyeEy large ones fell to Billy's lot Billy
held them up before him. "Jimmy," said
he, nthose are pretty bags TO give little
fellow like me. Them stockings was knit
for the President or young gorilla, cer
tain - and he WAS about to bestoW them
upon cradle, when a soldier in tue pl0Site
fpredirnment made an exchange. "Theu'
stockings made me think of the Louisiana
volunteer scared so the other day" said
he. SLOWS that2", said 1. "He was among
our prisoners and saw. big pair OF red
leggtugs with feet, hanging up, before a
tent, He never said a. word till he saw the
lsggings. aud then he asked me what they
Banks stockings" He looked scared
"Hefs big man, is Gen. Banks, said ],
".but then you ort to see the way he lives"
ular diet is bricks buttered with mortar"
The next day Billy got a present OF pair
Of stockings from a lady; nice, soft
pair with his initials in red silk upon
them. He was very happy. ttJimmy,"
said he, '.just look Ut them,' and he
smoothed them down with his hand
"marked with my initials, too; 'B' for my
Christiun6and for my heaven name.
How kindl They come just In the right
time, too I've got such gsoEe eel for
it's q fact, Jimmy, If thete'ss sauy Thing in
life worse than unrequitediloye, it's sore
heeln Orders came to "fall ip." Billy
was so sooverjOyed with his new stockings he
didn't keep tue line very we'll. STEADY,
thereW gtowled the sergeant, 'keep your
place and don't be travelling around like
the Post OfIice.f We were soon put upon
doublequick. Aftera few minutes Billygaye
a groan. "What is it Billy2" said /. ats.
ali up with them" said he. Ididn't know
what he meant, but his face showed some
thing very bad had happened When we
broke ranks Billy hurried to the tent, and
when / got there, there he stood, the very
pIctnre Of. despair, with his shoes off, and
his heels shining through his stockings like
two crockery door knobs. '.Them new
stockings of.yours are breech- loading, atnt
they, Billy7" said an unfeeling volunteer.
"Better get yourname on both ends, yon
can keep them together" said another
'.shoddy :, stoekings,h said a third Billy
was silent; SAW his heart was breaking,
aud said nothing. We held council ON
them, and Billy, not feeling strong=hearted
ed enough for the task, gave them to Crl-
die with directions to sew up the small
holes. came into the tent soon after, and
he was drawing portrait, with piece of
charcoal on n board. Whats good por-
trait Of Fremont" said I, she looks just
like that; that's the way he parts his hair,
in the middIe.h HThat Isn't portrait OF
Fremont said Billy, 'tIt g map Of the
Omitted States; that line in tue middle, you
thought was the part in his hair, is the
Mississippi river" ~
"Ol" said l.. 1 saw him again before
supper; he came to me, looking worse than
ever the estOekingsin-his hand. "Jtmmy,"
lsaidthe, i.you know ] gave them to Cradle,
and told him to sew up the small holes. and
what do you think hshas done2 He's gone
and sewed up the hedds." 'Its q hard
case, Jimmy, said he, ain such acase tears
ara almost justifabte.h