The Grange advance., 1874-08-12
How BxaShear Broke His Leg.
from the Courier:Journal.l

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How Br.shear Broke His Leg.
[From the Courier-Journal.]
It was Asa Brashear himself who told
the story. Asa, as everybody in Louis.
vile knows, is not unacquainted with
cards. 1t is possible that he is better
acquainted with the Queen of Clubs
than he is with the Queen Of Sheba. 1t
is probable that the blue and gold of
the King of Diamonds is a more familiar
custom to him than the picture of Solo,
mon arrayed in all his glory. 1t is also
highly probable that Asa is fond of q
social glass or two. But this is how he
happened to tell the story: Asa is lame
of one leg, and we asked him one day
what was the matter with the defective
limb.
"How did happen to break my leg,
did you sayl Well, it was curious
thing, and I'll tell you about. You see
I'd been drinking pretty hard for a
week OF so, and thought I'D lay off and
get over it. live up in the third story,
thirty feet or so from the ground, and
my window comes almost down to the
floor. It's mighty easy to fall out of
that window, and there a brick pave.
ment down below which isn't as soft as
feather bed. So you see fellow
that d fall down there would be mighty
apt to hurt himself. fell down there
once, and I know how it is myself.
cit was nearly dark when I went to
NV room that evenin'. and I thought
I'd sleep awhile and see if the trouble
in my head wouldn't stop. It was a
whizzing sort of feeling, and, I didn't
feel exactly right about what / saw.
In fact, the last drink l took
that day there was fly in it. At
least thought so: but Jimmy, who
was behind the bar, looked sort O funny
when l asked him to take it out. How.
soever, soon fell asleep, and slept
don't know how long; but l woke up
rather suddenly, and heard a strange
kind of noise out side the door. 1t was
awful dark, and the noise on the steps
sounded like thousand men with felt
slippers on striking a thousand rattan
canes on the steps, and all in military
line. All at once music struck up; but
the door suddenly opened, and blaze
O light came in that blinded me SO that
I couldn't see any more than when the
door. was shut. When I got over the
daze looked down on the floor, anc
there was long file Of soldiers, not one
Of 'em higher n my finger, all a-march'
in into the room, headed by band o.
music, and with the Kurnal, who WASH,
biggcr'n any O the rest of 'em, mount
Oh horse correspondent
''Well, they marched into the room
and formed in files in front of my bed
and was looking at 'em ell the time
When they had all got fixed in prope,
ranks, the fellow on the horse got dow,
and the band stopped playing. Afte1
he touched the floor the Kurnel com
mcnced to grow, and before he stopped
CROWN he was as. much as eight fee
tall. kept lookin' at him all tn
time, and then he: got up on the bed ant
took screw from his pocket ant
, screwed it into the cealin'. Then h
stepped down again and caught one O
them little soldiers by the nape of tn
) neck and tied string around his necl
r and stepped upon the bed. And I wa
r lookin' at him all the time. Their
he tied the other end of thestring shor
, up on the screw and let 60 O. the littl
1 soldier. The poor little feller kicke,
. around for a while and grew black i,
the face and then died, s'pose; a
/ least he didn't s,nake any more fus
1 that night, When the Kurnel saw h
was dead he got down again, and a
soon as he touched the floor he bega1
to grow smaller and smaller until b
was no bigger he was at first. The,
{ he got on his horse and the band com
, menced to play. and he shouted For
, ward, march, and the little soldier
= commenced marchin' out of the room
, ''Now there wassone little soldier tha
= seemed to be watchin' me all the time
= and when the rest of 'em commence,
marchin' out, he slipped back fron
, one file to the other and so on till h
y had got to the rear rank. When tn
last of the little soldiers but him hat
= got out of the dooc, this little chap h
= came runnin' back to the bed and says
casa, put down your leg
, '@Well, put deavn my leg and tn
!, , little cuss climbed straddle my foot.
"a '''Now, Asa, says he, pull your le'
! up in the bed
II II put my leg up on the bed again
j and the little soldier Gan up to the sid
Of my pillow.
;, ":Asa,' says he, did you see tn
kurnel hang that little soldier 2
A''Yes,' says I, 4 was lookin' a
y: him all the time
!" We'll, ASA says he, 4he's a.coman
back to do the same thing to you in
: minute -" '.'
|, ":Sood God,' says I, what mus
! I dog
i CASA says he. very solemn, sth'
! only thing YOU can do is just to juml