The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-07-21

MESSENGER, SUNDAY. JULY !:
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On one Of these bsds was plsood. ins
q p.ns .o Sss q ne
3D. Tho windows we're open. and the lanes
e. shs s:s d = the a & sass
aprons tied beneath thetr 1rus, came ana we.t
while the groans from tho halls below. and the
nsisnsns Of horses wishoat. seemed e pieros
my weary brain. While they we're undressiny
me they handled me very roughly, ana my my
avoid shrieking. A surgeon came mp ut once.
and scolded them for not being moro careful:
That 10 all that remember that night, for
| tharine, Monsieur Goulden sad Aunt Gredel,
e my neikhbor, An old artilleryman, whom my
cries prevented from sleeping. afterwards told |
O'Clock, at tho first RON Of the drum and saw
tho hall better, and then learned that hsd |
the bone OF my left shoulder broken: 40. a dozen
stont; dark man, whom they called Monsieur
the Baron VA. opening ny r lille on ~
~ 'ns tSIs % s1 srSminsd NV wound:
al the others bent forward to hear what he
might say. He spoke afew moments, bat 81
struck from below, Sfeskin { lie boss ans pas
| Ing oat behind. cav that he knew his bnsi-
ness veil, for the Pfussians had tired from
1 must have ranged upward. He washed the
| wound himself, and with o couple Of turns of
his hand, replaced the bandage, so that my
shoulder could not move, and everything was
in order.
Ifeit much better. Ten minutes after hos
pitai steward put shirt on me without hurt
ing me-such was his skill.
T. e'surgeon, passing to another bed, cried'
"What! you here again, old fellow ~
eyes. tits I, Monsieur the Baron, replied the thu
first time was at Austerlitz, the second at jena
J and then received two.thrusts OF lance at
Smolensk."
, "Yes, yes said the surgeon kindly and
now what is the matter with you?"
Three sabre-cuts on my left arm while
was defending my piece from the Prussian nus
sars"
}, The surgeon unwound the bandage, and ask
ed, Have you the cross!'
Il "No, Monsieur the Baron"
e "What is your name =
!, "Christian thinner, of the Second horse ar.
d tillery."
@ Every good"
:, next, saying, You will soon be we'll :;
q He returned, chatting with the Others. and
d went out after finishing his round aud giving
The old artillerymans heart seemed over.
flowing with joy; and as concluded from his
8, name that he came from Alsace, spoke to him
~ in our language, at which he was still more
4. rejoiced. He was o tall fellow-at least siz
IN feet in height, with round shoulders, a ha'
v. forehead, . large nose Light red mustaoh s
or all that. His eyes twinkled when spoke Al
ID satan to him, and he pricked up his ears al
as once. If asked him in our tsngue ne re-, wa a.
a. had only clasp of the hand which cracked
~ the bones in mine to give
" He called me Josephel, as they did at home
ss and said, "Josephel, be careful how you swal
l What sn You saoW. All That doe. not smell
, les besse Of Riksrir every day we would soon
ng with handful Of vile boiled herbs, 1au t
eo When told him was afraid of dying of'th
no fever, he looked angry with his great gra
Use Use YOU think that such tall fellows you and
al were born to die in a hospitalf No, no; driV
o ot the idea from your head" !,
49,. surgeons making their rounds, found seven {
Of eight dead. Some died in fevers, some in deat
,i9s " chill SO that heat or cold might be tt
are pressage of death.
vil- evil drugs which the doctors invented.
me Won see that tall, thin fellow" he aske
see WE'LL that man can an boast OF having k,il,
one primed with his ma Soh lighted; and that lit
oh, brown fellow would send him instead of Il
! of Emperor to the Russians and Prussians;
would kill more of them than a whole arm
ess corps" -. j.
, of He would have made me laugh with /
the jokes if the filters had not been constant
ing At tie end of three weeks my shoulder b
Ken gan to heal, and Zimmer's wounds were al
ets, doing well. They gave us every morning sol
,ere good boiled beef which warmed our hear
ere, and in the evening q little beef with half
His glass of wne the sight alone OF which rej0is
ing us andmade the future look hopeful. ~
had About this time, too, they allowed US to wa
ees, in the large garden. full of elms, behind
is f' hospital. There were benches under the tire
ony and we walked the paths like millionaire
5 Of our gray great-coats and forage-caps. T
he weather was magnificent, and we conId see
all along the poplar bordered Partha. Th1s rLt
no falls into the Eister, the left, forming 10
blue line. On the same side stretches q foE'
/. IF of beech trees, and in front are three OF fo
orI great white roads, which cross fields of whe
rom barley and hay, and hop plantations; no sig
saw could he pleaIs;anter or richer, especially WI
Hssn and fall in the sunlight like waves of the 8
,nai The increasing heat pressged a fine year, g
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