The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1867-06-29

At the rendezvous. Bot for the ESCAPE Of IN,
steam Of my wrath aud vexation in this extrI
Performance, ! should have died.
IN the very fury and excitement Of my mind,
made most exiravagant and deleciable Indian
whooPing, hiding scalping, skulking 20 desper
Atsly, that bore off the palm from eli my con
peers. thought Sue was locking on and I'd
miring me, OF ooarse, but through all the parade
ana mock engagement never once caught nighl
OF her. ! learned anerward that the young
goose (she is dear old goose, now, and is peep.
ing over her spectacies 81 me as she kniis and I
wri'el took the sham hgh, 50 literally, that she
ran away after the first charge, and could not Be
persuaded out Of the house again for the whole
day. Her sensitive Imagination was too well stor.
ed With IndlAu war stories 70 permit her 20 6nA
any pleasure In their rehearsal.
The finale on all these occasions was q grand
march through the leading streets Of the Town.
The Indians were Of course all prisoners and
we're marched along in hollow square I; every
now and then attempting al escape, aud being
remofsely shot By their captors, and biting the
dust In the most approved melo-dramAtic fashion
Every Indian thus shot took care that Il should
BE at the point nearest his residence and being
left dead At the roadside, would slip home and
soon be found standing among the spectators
minus, blanket. dust, aud oehre, and plus civ
slizrd coat and hat. by the time the regiment
reashed their artnory not prisoner would be left
The soldiers were then dismissed, and the dag .
work was done
AZ We neared our house, IN the march, caught
sight Of Cousin Sue, timidly peeping out Al the
window, while everybody else was Standing on
the porch. Here was my chance for q grand
Performance. yelled the yell. and sprung the
spring, and died the deaih under fire Of At least
whole platoon. Il vas wonderfully well per-
formed, everybody adisilted The drums beat.
and the cVnquefing hsrOss marched away
was surpfised 20 ind, =. -os- from the ground
that nobody ia our hoas-hcld bad waited 90 vel
come or to praise me Al hai run IN. ! sol-
lowed with whoop
A pretty cotnmO,ion found thers ia sure
enough; Cousin Susan was 10 . dead faint, Some
were streaming for ODe thing. and some for an
other, and all were doing their hest to siihe her
by crowdiDg over her aud shutting ber oGi of the
air As usual in such cases she came round
uhsn she was r-sds aud they led her OF %
stain 70 lie down. u vas curious, wssn H.
that any body could h. 20 frightened 30; then
Cousin sue had never .een sntihing. and he
was only eighie.n
Who MSS orly eighiseu
tncOnsciousls. a. wrote ihc-e lssi words
read them Out iOua. and Cousin see who has
teen known any time ihese thirty Years az Nrs
simpkins aud Aunt susan called 70 me IN ihose
words OF Interrogation Tbey pulled me away
~ once from the historic msss And must leAvs
you gentle reader 70 guess q; ie rest o. nv story
or course, after that aaaiF Cousin Susan could
pretend no Logger that she cared nothing al,o-t
your buuble servant. And be. a. 10 duiy hound
could do no less now ihap pat himself square
upon the platform of . deTo'ei lover And fur
ih~' tour deponeni saith not though be might
summon ~ aeiresses his children aud grandehil-
dren the former Of bon have gone through
their fathers experience and The oihtrs %
doubt viii - G1sise' . Il1r Eisrf