Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-02-13
The Ribbon of Honor.
by NORA PERRY.

7. night was very cold, and we haC
sea coal, which the size of the room rem
dered necessary, even when the furnace
was, according to Patrick, " at the top Of
its hate" We were Il small party my
cousin, and my cousins wife, her sister
Patty Emcrson-a dark eyed, Castliar
looking girl, whom you were constantly
naming in your imagination, Sonora Incz
or Dolores; anything but the common
place Patty, to which she really responded
and Major IIowth, an English friend
of my cousins and IL charming person,
easy, jovial, and sympathetic, and with Il
background of personal history which dat
ed from the Crimea.
With myself we made just five, II group
unequal rs to whist, but quite equal to Il
much Iiyelier pastime-story telling. The
major, good fellow, had opened the ball
with u Thrilling tale or two from his Cri-
mean experiences, and then for the first
time we discovered that he was one OF
those heroes who had won the Victoria
cross. Patty's eyes glstened.
Oh, to think, she cried out, that we here
in America have gone through such war,
have had such splendid heroes, and not n
national badge or ribbon of honor to
crown and specialize our special heroesl
wy oo"Si ,h" was nmd r'Is1'I ','ha soie.i'n
oa,iah m u Ii ~, %oIond whom yo lid n,t norn wv,
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.CorSin In nt tbis noint cnyo nf,cranca
in nn ov",an,,ion whirh ,t once uronseI
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mi~hf ,s wn,l nncn nm vonr huJoel, mt in
Mninr IIowith We iii ;o;ned in This in
vit1tion M, .nrrn.tinn md ,Cter = minutc
or i,vn nv, n09n.in's mlens,nt vniro w,s
telI;nr tbn Stow or tho ryrninr-the story
of ,T2e Ribbon of Honor
Ynn rnnnnher Nnlrnc he hconn ol,nc.
inr ,t ne tbrpe Ladies lie wos The brirht-
n.t r,vrsf lirtlc fellow, this Melroe. ad
drnssinr himself TO Major nowitb, the lNe
nf nv regiment. and he had won his
cont,incv thonuh he was but three and
twenty The nioht before his last battle.
rncollcn was a specinlly merry evening
MI oronn1. owino 10 Melroe's wit and bu.
NOR and drollprv DalZcll. Of the Fifteenth.
and NIolror h,d' a tent looethcr. and lIoylr
and fine two brothers Archy and Cam
prnwno tocn,her with myself were inyit-
ed in ,h,r nioht to a little supper of Mcl's
Tivinr rrcolIoct ncrrectly rs went in,
snn;nT AInlroo bpndinr over the oysters
whirH Ln w,s cooking nnon a spirit Iamp.
IIn n ,nas rrnat toll tGosr thinus and Cam
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nrowmo crnId Ynn'vr missed vnur voca.
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