Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1865-10-19
NvILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1865.

Don't talk so loud. There's the Major
in the next room, and there's only an
inch pine wall between us. I'll tell you
all about it when get into bed"
"That'll do; now hurry, dear, want
you"
Yes, honey, I'm coming"
Having unbent every rag of canvas,
stripped to girtline, ] ben; down over the
side of the berth, tasted once of little
Josey's lips, wife laid back the cover in
vitingly, and Dick went over the bac k
side and into bed at the first invitation.
JOsey and / had just laid our figure heads
together and our arms so lovingly around
each other, when our attention gas sud-
denly called to something going on in
the next state-room aft, something that
directly began 10 sound very like squall.
A female voice opened the duet:
why, Dick, my dear where's your
whiskers ~
"Who the devil is your de0r Dick 2"
NJ Major Florence inquired.
"Dick-my Dick-O, mercy on me !"
"That's. my husband % chnped my
bedfelIow, starting up. "Who are you
in my bed 2"
That's my Josey in bed with Major
Florence, Who in blazes are you, and
what the deuce are you doing in Geen.
eral Burnside 2" and ! tried to feel out
who my partner was.
''Hands of, sir! o dear-e-e.eech
This amt General Burnside; it's Dewitt
Clinton"
"Dewii d-n" and away I went
sprawling out on the floor.
"Help-murder! E.e-e.ech! Cap
tainr'
Husband ! squealed Mrs. Major Flor.
ence, tumbling end over end out of the
bunk, and sitting down square on my
stomach.
There's my husband in there-Dick
-i,i-i-e.oe Dick Marline ! My dear !!
&c; out of thlv, you beast - Iung out Jo-
sey from the next room.
Wailop, bang, smash, bumped some.
body or two il General Burnside. Let
me out o, let me out y screamed Mrs.
Major Florence, Open the door! GET
out of the way! Don't you touch me 50
piped Josey Marine and just then there
was a hurrah from the other side of the
ship, and the state-room next aft from
General Burnside, and out we came star
board and port, tangled into an everlast-
ing snarl, out into the broad glare of the
cabin, every shoulder strap with som e
other mans wife, all hands os US with
"notbing TO wear" or very little of it.
Everybody had been in bed with some
body that didn't belong 10 them. Won
en- squeallng, squabbling 10 find their
husbands, and trying to faint when they
had men raving, pitching, and cursing
into shoestrings, Fore and eft along the
cabin, passengers came out of bed, by the
the, to see wha; the riot was. Somebody
yelled g FIRE." Boiler going to burst!'
screamed somebody else. "Rebel bat
terry opened on usp' volunteered vOlun-
teer shoulder strap. Boats struck a
snag - roared foul anchor. .'The dew
lis broke loose" said Kentuckian.-.I
'Everybody's gone clean crazy, do be-
lieve. remarked a quiet old Indiana la
dy, and she was nearer fight than any
one else.
After a while they began TO get lhe
lay Of The land, and then everybody hur-
rahrd ha hal Ind the men roared out
bully ! and the undressed dimity cut for
dress and decenty.
Then we discovered that four of our
party hadn't turned up yet. There were
Colonel Orion and his wife. They were
all right, of course. Slowed away in old |
Millard Fillmore But there were
Mrs. Ives aud Colonel Marshall. No,
hey were not there. Then where were
lhey4 Why laid out in bed alongside of
each other. in Burnside, and both as fast
asleep as if they'd swallowed all NOR
phine in the surgeons locker. When
We shook them up at last, and told them
What they'd been at,the Lieutenant's wife
said, in a sleepy sort Of fashion, "She
lid Mt see much q Ference to speak Of
between tie Colonel and her husband"
At a second attemp,ed we pared Of
md put ourselves awey correctly. but We
never quite believed that that misplacing
md mixing up latch keys. was all quite
% InDuc ent mistake as Colonel Orion
pretended.
TIE VOLUNTEER COUNCIL.