Des Arc citizen., 1866-02-20
for us l reckon wei git em all back alter

E !-iS'ef 00fffte, sald Mrs. Arp like an ekko
 and ever since then when I allood to ,ou,
 Northern brethren.-s only replies ..atte, feoliie 9 asffd. .l-H-iaGg, asg'9-ss e.If M [ By and by the skatterd wanderers begun < to drop in under the weleuih shades of on, sorrowtul citty. It wer delightful, enjoy.
 ment to greet em- home, and listen to the bis.
 tory of their sufferings and lmisfortnnes
 Misery loves company, and arterlthe misery
 IS past there's power of comfort in talkin if
 over and fxini up as big tale as any body.
 lawer standin. one day upon the banks of the
 mum rlvef, Wonderin in my mind who
 would come next to gladden. our hearts, when
 lsa'g the shhdder of an objek darknin the
 sui 'is bank. lp It wer not loadtof hay nor
 an elefant, but shore enuf it wer my friend
 Dig John,a movin slowly, but surely to the
 dug out landing on the opposite side. His
 big round face assoomd more latito ood when
 he saw me, and without waitin for remarks
 he sung out in voice some two slaves deeper
 than the Southern Harmony: ahtaats94fid 9.l
 "There came to Me beach POOR eriie of Erin. ,,
 .G-5Ll.'- rrQtrqr4 ii v '''f's.
 "Make him Jfat,'' said I, "and you'll fill the
 bill" Prouder to. see him than monkey show; paddled the dug out over in double quick time and bid him welcum in the name of the eternal citty and it's humble inhabit- ants. l soon got him afoat in the little ca moo, and before was aware of it the water was sloshing over the gunnels at every wab- ble. "Lay down. my frend, , sed I, and he laid, which was all that saved us from a watry grave, and the naborin farms from inundation When safely landed found him wedged in so tight that he couldn't rise, so relieved him by prize with the eend of the paddle. As his foot touched the sacred soil he gently separated his countenance and sung with feeln melody, fea.5A ealt .n fes. ''Homae again---home again-.trom q turin shore, The Yanhs neay cum and the deca too, but IH
 sas not run any more eH{ is4uoiaAa h
 Recollektin some skraps of blank verse my- self, I said with much askent, STell me thou swift of foot--thou modern Asahcl--oh tell me where is thy chariot and steer? Where didst thou go when I did see thee driving like Jehu as we did fee for lifce' i' 2" t.5Ht
 "Irl tell you alp A el he. "I want my fridnds to know it. In now a man of war, Bill, and Pm glad ot I've done the State some servis and sh | lows it. I've handled guns-yes, gunsn, ! bins of deth. I've slept on my ar. froI y@e seed you-nigh after night have siept on my arms, with hundreds of deadly weepins ali around me. An Bill, Patriotism is a big thing. When you once break the ice, great sluces of glory as big as your arm will jest spring up like mushrooms in your buzzum; and make you feel like throwin yourself clean away for your country. Let me set down and I'll tell you all know, Bill, but as the feller said in the sheater ''when you in your letters these un- lucky deeds relate, speak of me as l am nothing expatiate nor set down hotn malice. ''
 'Jest so,o sed l, .''exaaktly-exaaktly so. Proseed, my hero" ' ""4
 ''Well you see night alter you passed me: my steer got away. Hang the deseevcn beast hunted smartly for him the next mornin put hunted more forrerds than backwards Leavin my wagin with widder woman l ook it afoot across the country by a settle nent road they called the cut off ; Devil of cut off it was to me. I broke down in sight ,f little log cabin, and never moved a foot urther that day. The old man had a chunk If a nag that worked in a slide. I perswaded lim to haul me to the eend of the cut off, and
 know he done it for fear I'd eat up his ,moke house. Every now and then he'd look Il, the old oman, and she'd look at the smoke louse and then look at me. But that slidin ,isness were the most orfullest trayellin that
 ever have had. Every time the pony'd look pack he'd stop, and when he'd start agin he sive such a jerk that my contents were in langert My holt broke on one okkashun, a. ,oin down hill full of gullies. l rolld down ome twenty feet into the edge of the woods, nd cotch up agin an old pine stump that was ull of yaller jackets. Three of the dinged hngs stung me before could rise, but got trough the cut off and fell in with some mpty wagons that was stampedin my way
 "Gitten on to Atlanty, fool lrishman topd me ri ght at the edge of the town and lema nded my papers. dident hay no pa ,ers. Nobody had ever axed me for papers, ,ut he wouldent hear an argument. As luarles would say, he wouldent Jtne tsshue, ,ut marched me to an offs, and 1 didcnt stay here ten minets were sent off to Dekatur with some fifty conskripts who wer all in nournin, exsepin their clothes I never seed ich a pitiful set in my life. talkd with em III, and thar was nary one but what had the lyspepsy or the swinny or the rumatics or he blind staggers or the heaves or the humps 1T sumthin. We'll, there want none of dis harged, for there was bran new orders call1n or everybody for thirty days to go to the l;tcbas As confident walk that fur. | was