Evansville daily journal., 1865-12-12

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, = ~ The Sergeant story.

me ROOQ TO tell IL, S0meumGB. dan0s me
pag gsPeEcaEtssn, Bill. Ali .tAgs,S pple Of
sENHoH Oh, sergeant, here comes the
lieutenantp ui
sHe's welcome, said Sergeant J hksess,,
pleasantly. There's a stiff horn or
,YTE5Wpdaft iaahs3uGsW ,E1ooi0
exc Aieutepant Beads sarFiFaf created eps
d raomentary diversion. He took the
offered "horn,"' and it being a holiday,
''ss sptofesssda himself dssironsosof1 hedring
his sergesnt's story. q
Jukes, therefore, took up his moving
tale as follows, SO far, at least, aP the
k~z-su6stanre of the narratIye Is concefned,
for thel@fiter tFanscfibes from memory,
and can not pretend to give the SER
geauts style of expression very ac-
curatelgsi asaild sssa hfs --~
'e0ne day. hsibegan,s.ss was cpFp0s
raj in The Independents then, and you
were with the Sharpsho hooters, lieutsnsnt-
well, one day, when I was~hawking
sssround among the piekets, couple Of
k4chapsrcame sneaking over from t.e Eebs,
Dand said they were deserters, and anxi-I
1ous to join our sidet We were pretty
1ishysofathat s6rtof8 folks, for between q
oCdeserter anda SPY there aineri as big
~,step as the poet says there iss between
Ssthe sublime and thea Eidiculous How-
Safter going through the usual kan ina
zstions andaoaths; they oyere listed into
our squadron OF seontsF TheEwere two
-as unlike fellows as foii could scrape up
sin the same family, for they were broth 1
Sets, or at all events they said they we're,
=though from aYhsat paased-hat tAatll
come IN W Well, tDne ofastem-the
oldestr7waa i .iall, Il big:honed, dark faced.
chsp, with wicked oleys, and q scsr
x1across his Hosei from a Bow ieslfnife. I I
arsguess he was about twenty-f ye.5 But the |
s-olherbawesh't more than nineteen or
CtwenfyI and as pretty a youth as you'd |
1tcare to see-pretty as q younggirL He |
chad long dark hair, smooth soit cheeks, |
clcleat large eyes, they were hoatingSlike |
SIN his head, He wasn't near as tall as |
.-shis brother, and quite slender, and he /
wdidn't seem to have any signs Of beard,
@except Just a sort of shadow on his upsE
per lip, not half as much as I've seen on /
"a Spanish girl many time. His name
was Ned Kenton, and his brother was
sGeorge, though The names aresof conf
pssequence to the story. George was I
frat rate tEppper,a q hard rider, and as
brave as they make EN-, and he seemed
to hate his former friend, the rebs, like
the devil Ned was a good rider too,
and brave enough, but didn't seem to
have much heart in his work, and would
hang back Like, unit his bro;her spur
red him on b5 some things be you'd say
te him, though what they were never
could hear. ssI.
- al ssIWellf soon go4te like Ned stran ae-
ssal "a llF sHy strap iys for The fslQs 1dn't
= .0g9let himself ont ITO me, nor TO iany body
else but was silent and melancholy
z ! >. aaschap, and oncef caught him crying like
q baby. And yet, in spite Of alls this, /
got to like him amazingly, and used oft
en- TO choose him to geswithEpne when 1 =
e->WAs ordered OF on some special scouting
Aa aarEanesmsnt,.f forah knew all the. high
ways. about that part OF the country as 1.
well as if he had engineered em, L
thought, too, | might pump something Il
out of him about himself and his big
brosher--Rhat made EN- desert, and so
forth; but for lcng time couldn't get a
show.
Finally one day we were out, Ned
and , with a squad looking up somsS
refugees and conirabands, when we stop
ped at q farmhouse to water aud feed
A. The folks, if there we're any, had left in
q hurry There was nobody, but an old
halfbIind and whole-deaf black woman
in the place. p Il
- Come in, says ! to Ned, after theila
dismount. ,sob5i
I'D rather not, says he, unless YOU
order it.
"Oh, says /, it's not an order; youlcan
stand at ease outside Il yoa like, says I, L
laughing, and / went into the house,
But couldn't help wondering to myself
what was the reason Ned wouldn't come
in, for it was cold as blazes outside, andd
drizzling to boot i found the old
darkey caddfed up In the chimney-pIace.
Where's your master says l. sal
= ~ De ole woman's deaf fssys shes al
- a "Where' 8 your mastery says i, IN a +
roar ,sH11
"Lorl Massa's dead, an Missus done
way widae ehiIdFenlas6pighti a'laI i
"What's your mistress name2 yells.
Bress your soul, honey, / amt SO /,
done deaf 8 dat; hears yer without sich
e. FelIin'. Missls' names Miasns KeHtcn II
--dere. 10
"HoI hoi says I to myself, seeing ga b
systreAk ofolght on Ned ssgbjectq % j,
"How many children has she2 asks, i,
"Wel, den, says the old woman,
Grossly clare you sojers is mighty
5quisitvc,jlsi Alike de- ! 9aIlkeea+yal yal
"Come, old lady, / shouts, answer me
sfsO~-how many ehIldren2& G3 RHl .aIo
Well, den, eff you mus know, der's
Miss Ii Ida, hut she1d done gone way +
long ago, pore chile, pore chile She
. Y shook her ariFzled head awhile and then
resumed:
.asosaesAn. dere's Miss, Graees sps nissy,
dats Study, deym away wild de missus; I
an dats, ala Massn ,Seier. Ak
''All the girls Now, how many boys2 7
J .xwys:s Z :slHi ri honey Missus. qebbeF had no
y q Nbbss as know'd on - what put de boys
in yer head, Massa Sojer2
"No hoysl was all In the dark
= again, but an idea stuck me.
y +" Your master had brothers, then, I
aupnose. come wake mn and tell me
3 & aboutthem RlsaFs SfOTt L1
q "Sartin, massa had brudders. Two,
free of en-. But they m done gone to 1
4 de war long ago. WolEainI seed muffin
oh um dis year, reckon /
SHOW old were they?" r
.EfEWell, Hens L dnnnog o Bout thirty
= or forty reckon.
Was there-none younger2" 81
Eli l dunno. / reckon. 'Bont
thirty or fortys 4 reckon, massa.
ffH 6 And this was all could serew out
of the old crone, after considerable fnR4l
: a fther effort HSogI was nearly as puzzled |
as ever though thought that Ned and
George (or one of othem at any rate)
were either Mr.. Kenton's brothers, or /.
.gkad assumed the narheHas q dibgnise. .ss !
son our way to camp, tried to pump /
Ned once more; but all the informationd
got was, that those Kentons were near |
relatives of his, and he naturally summed |
..s,their house after becoming what they !
would can traitor to his country DaAl
ga few days later, we broke camp, |
and marched on a bag raid
81 liam as dry as q .snnhuEHt chip, 80, |
with your leave, ieutenantr I'll take |
five minutes for refreshmett, as the |
railroad chap says."--
"You command the party, sergeant |
just now, said the liestepa ant, atfably II
sl1lal eiaa-4-- yrsl l
IL bs. 1
+ sihas1' Well, Presumed the sergeant, when |
his whistle s~as duly wet again, +" my |
liking for Ned Kenton continued and |
grew stronger for air fis perverse want |
of confidence, an a. though / couldn't |