Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-05-14
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BY CAPT. JERE WILLIAMS.

| Uee-Hlse3 sdiu JACK HiilipS, one uuiI
morning, while we were quartered On
Cheat Mountain summit
Where is it p asked one Of his two
hearers.
If you will promise to go along and
I help cumulate it, I'll tell you
Count me one" said jed Wicks.
Count me half Il dozen, if you want
/ that many" said Bill Reese
But tell you, boys, it's down at
I Robison's, on Cheat River, and worse than
that its in the kitchen loft, and still
worse, he has two aitfred big cross blood
hounds
: Come to think, said Jed Wicks, Il
havnt time 10 20.
never agreed to 20" said Bill
| Reese
Look here, fellows, tell you we
can 'cumulate that ere honey, and ct you
feilers are afeerd to 20, | can find some
body that ain t
| This leit-hander at their courage set
/ them to wariing off with other excuses
m not aieerd to go, said Jed, : but
maybe Robinson Is Union man, and it
wouldn do, you know
Not by a derned sight, he amt He's
one Of those cussed neutral secesh that is
ten times wuos n an out-and outer. He
carries news to Greenbrier camp and II
prove it on him afore week
But then, interposed Bill, I'VE can't
get apast them guards, and if we could, it
looks a little too much like stealin'"
"Gittin past the guards ain't common
amusement" said Jack, iist say you'll
20, and the honey is ourn And So 10
the moral pint, well 20 eording to our
custom, you know Fust demandin' of
the secesE bees to take the oath, they re
/ Il.
property. All fair and legal, you see
W hat stealth IN times 0 peace Is confs
cation and cumuatin III times o war
For stealth you 20 to Jail, but for cumu-
latin you git promoted So YOU see. in a
moral point o view, it is entirely differ
ent
Their qualms Of conscience being thus
satisfactorily disposed oi. and Jack hav-
ing insured their hides against the hounds,
they agreed TO 60 if ne would get pass
TO take them through the guard lines,
Come right along, then, said Jack,
and they followed him to remote beat
where was walking to and fro a German
sentinel who could not read english Al
ter the usual challenge, Jack adv
and drawing from the folds &C Iced,
book crumpled paper ais pocket
eAN- cng,r MouxrAIS Va,
nv pas the bearer and two Comrades, on very
. Brigadier General MILRoY"
The German understood none oi this
except the name and title cf the General.
and Jack 70 prevent him from calling 4
corporal OF the guard. looked very impor
tant AM made him understand that the
General wished the expedition kept Il
profound secret The sentinel deferen-
TALLY stepped aside and they passed on.
How in the dickens did YOU get tn t
pass, Jack? inquired Bill
Pass be hanged 1t was nothing but
a little note Robson sent up to the Ten
eral t'other day by me, about the oys
s.ealin from him. Yes, gave it Q him,
much"
But what does the note say?" eagerly
inquired Bill
Why it says as how if the General
| lows any of the soldiers to come stealth
about him, his dogs shouldn't leave hal
nor hide Of EN-. lie done it to keer me,
- he noticed me a eyin' of his beehive
tux the hint and the note and told him
/ like as not some of the bows would be
down this very day. and mcbbe steal his
hehive or somethln Saws he. do YOU
see them pintin' at his do-s SAYS |, /
| believe | see EN- Says he, one o them
will tear the hind legs off Il man the lust
/ Jerk. e. | tell EN- to Saws |. keep
sharp look out and mentioned to him
specially to keep his eye peeled to day.
/ Bill and Jed stopped.
/ Jack" said Bili my opinion Is that
you re tryin TO get Us IN an Internal
scrape
Nary time, fellers; nary time list
wanted the secesh cuss To understand ii at
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hive, If him and his dogs was a straddle
OF It. tell YOU, pom houor that | have
the ropes all laid, and that beehive is rs
good as ourn without any scratch. IL
manage Robinson and the dogs mvsel.
they shan as much as look towards you
After some further assurance they pro
ceeded, and when they approached the
house, they crept quietly through the
laurel 70 take a Reconnaissance. There
sat Robinson in the very door through
which they would have TO pass in order to
reach the beehive and by the doorstep
lay the wo +. roeious dogs. Appearances
certainly were not very promising, but
Jack quietly remarked, all right, old
feller"
'Bill, said he, YOU and Jed stay here
silent and still until YOU hear me boiler,
and then double quick in. wrap a blanket
dtbttiiu tAiC ifcuihts anu DTlll- II iito TAU
rel up the pint You needn't be ateerd
of Robinson or the dogs they'll be tended
- Saying which, Jack started towards
the river
About two hundred yards from the
house was footway across the river that
part farthest from the house being single
plank. The water three or four feet
deep, swift and cold, and tho banks quite
bluff
In about half an hour from the time
Jack left his friends, Robinson wa. star
tied by hearing squawking in the direc-
ton of the river, and lookin. up saw Jack
crossing, with a chicken under his arm
" Hold on there, YOU internal scoundrel
YOU = he shouted, " or III set the dogs on
YOU Here Ii-e, here Mage and he and
the dogs started on the run.
''Taint none of your chickens shouted
Jack, feignins fright, " bought it down
st the widders"
Hold on. fell you + shouted the en-
ragged Robinson. and ii see whose II Is,
you Yankee thief
Jack stopped at the farther end of the
5 footway, and stood with his toe under one
end of the plank, while Robins n advan
ced from the other sh.k kiu,r his fist and