Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-05-23

but he'd come round" as the worthy
Captain said who had leaned his condi- {
tion and his whereabouts. "Such chaps
rs that don't peg out in hurry, marin,
not if the court knows itself, and it thinks
IL do" ass. r.f.. .ea .
But it was long after the Captain was
at his bedside---indeed after that Excess
sively dogmatic individual had sailed on
a new voyage-that Paul opened his eyes
on the day again. r.u .5e.
He was very much altered, but the
crisis once passed, he recovered rapidly.
What was it that buoyed him up ?--HIs
COUNTRY. hr .HH+. .... !
Yes; the war had broken out. and moth
ing could satisfy the young sailor but the
reading of all that could be had upon the
subject. .. . .,s
The abandonment of Moultrie, the as
sault upon Sumter, the extraordinary ac-
counts from the Potomac and the call for
troops, were listened to with an interest
that gave great encouragement to the kind
friends who fitted softly about his sick
bed. One morning they missed him from
his bed, from the room, from the house.
Sailor-like. he had gone off without
warning; but not without gratitude. A
very badly blotted note told them he cod
not bear to bid them goodbye nor to i'm
part his intentions to them, for fear they
might, in their over-zeal for his good, dis.
courage or oppose them; and in opposi-
tion to them wonld only make him sick
again.
He was bound to be soldier. . ..
II have a new mistress now" wrote he;
"my last and only one. am going to
lay myself at her feet, to be married to her.
Would you know her name? will tell
you. 1t is My COUNTRY When yor
hear of me on distant battle -Gaeids p;at w
a prayer for ny success, and when fall
think AlIai : Of your son that was to be
and, if you can, lay me beside my loved
Marcia"
Quiet people at home may have occa
sionally heard during the fierce noise o
q the conflict, of certain band of amphib b
. ious soldiers, who built bridges, hoatet
pontoons, manned patrol boats, went u
. in balloons, buried themselves in rife pits
q lived in trees, swan rivers, and performe
a variety of equally credible maneuvers
~ and the same quiet people probably thre'
the papers away in which such perform
q ances were described, with doubtin
humph or cynical, stuff .. a..
% Quiet people may also have OCCASIONAL
- learned that such land. .andwater gian,
Il were not impervious to MIME balls, an
6 sometimes got shot; and it is quite prof.
!, able they may also have heard of ce
tain band of noble women, angels of pit.
. of soothing care and blessed rest, W no, whe
y, ~ these brave fellows lay writhing in pail
- q an arm or leg carried away, or gaspir
in death, far, far away from loved fac
and home, held the cooling goblet to the
T. + parcbed lips, and whispered to them, thr
f. T. their tears, holy words of comfort end
70 balm.
~ Perhaps it would not be presuming L
a. much to suppose that if they did hear
;s such things, they retained sufficient ma
10 hood in them not only to withhold Il
- = customary pish or bosh but to thil
a. a. respectfully and even admiringly of t
! gland heroism that such women were az
~ ing in their own days and almost befo
wv their own eyes. 'fi g.a il
~ 1t is commonly supposed that when
90 g man is resolute in seeking his death
70 battle there is no chance whatever of !
81, being killed; but the adage doesn't he
~ ~ good in regard to wounds. If some
w. cautious Rebel disposed to doubt tn
y would oblige Mr.. Paul Newman coiled
:. in tree yondcr with proof of his fal
- in old saws, by kindly stepping out of
81 hole and exposing ever SO little OF
" precious carcass to our hero aim ne VOL
u " soon become a convert to the more mode
sL I idea that beneath dangers there lul
,cb death. ia a'. aar H
mi Day after day a certain Rebel gum
.oN whose fate it was Paul's especial object
ple accomplish, would make splendid practi
off pour deadly fire into our advanced wo
Nv! from riAed eighteen-pounder, carry
er- Of good many heads, and remain unh
'as spite of all his vigilance and sharp sht
md ing
pe. AT lenght Paul determined to take m
IRIS than usual care of his shot, and accordl
om ly rugged set of slings in his tree
av. which to rest his rife. This done,
by calmly awaited events. Very soon at
usii. the edge Of something red was seen al
the rebel parapet, then something M
ded and finally the whole of a fez cap prec
tied " like the one worn by the lively Con
and crate, But Paul was too experience
and marksman to throw away ashot upon S
her a vuse. He knew very we'll the cap
, be empty.
Still. in order to deceive his enemy
~, discharged his revolver in the line OF
al rife. and was rewarded the next mon
VI, by the sight Of the artillerymsn' oRi
eighteen. FOUNDER was withdrawn, Loaf
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