The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-01-30

little more bloated, perhaps, than when l
shw him last, buS the same old Grant Have
you seen him 2"
"Yes; he came along this way: Heard
him ask what was up there for, but no.
body seemed to know, and Aoan't exactly
recoect myself They ought to have put
an interrogation point over me, and then
people would know l was conundrum."
This joke appeared to tickle the gentle
man exceedingly, for he chuckled away for
a minute and half over it. l did not
laugh. > fhe point of the joke was. probably
blunted in Shc4fall, as L could InoN see it.
After he had laughed all the fun out of his
reflections, he said:
II think it a downright, shame, they
didn't give me a,chance to whopp with the
patrtots today; a little forcthought,' a little
ihdention on the part of the Council, and
the day would have passed off with the ut
iukst> Selat. r. wanted awflHy 10 cheer !;
.triedto work thy right hand up u my hat,
but it was no use couldn't bulge it, and
my cap is jammed down as tight as blazes !;
couldn't say word, and was afraid to smile,
because knew bow gbastly ! would look.
Hefs 1lhave stobd alfday, a soft b Ban
quos ghost at the reception, and | would
have assisted so Willingly; would cheerfully
have submitted to being pawned for funds
enough to have gotten up o. banquet. But
no, everybody was. too busy to notice me.
T9p busy too busyw, 2 l,A.N -,
felt right sorry for the fellow, and, to
break the silence that followed his declara
ton. remarked ~ ~
"Thcn you are an admirer OF Grants 2"
N 4 Ill aLn,,1l
Why, slept out on the ground four years,
eating hard tack, wearing old clothes, and
drinking mud and water just to be near him.
Those were good old days, however, and full
Of fun You see, Grant and his boys would
come down to, our quarters now and then,
and we would get up the livclest entertain.
ment you ever saw. Sometimes fellows
would get killed and wounded. but that
didn't make any difference. We were
obliged to entertain him at any cost. My
own brother was mang,d, and they carried
him off to take care of him. He never came
back, nor did lot of the fellows they took
care Of. learned afterwards that in the
rush and excitement of those old days, they
wcr, allowed to go without food too long
or experiments on their particular cases
failed, and they pcggcd out. But that was
nothing, and when accidentally our guests
burned down house, run over a child, or
provoked an ovcr.sensitiyo woman by a
harmless joke, we passed it by, FOR Grant
is q great man. Any man must be great
who can capture Lee ., ,,..
There was, something cruel in the fellows
language. it Struck me, and | was surprised
that one OF tbe Generals did not stop him.
They, however, appeared to be locked in a
Crcamlcss sleep aud spoke not. The Confcd
continued:
II. used to be said that the man who
whipped should treat. ] never could under
stand that. Why should he treat? lie
has nothing to pect-nothing to gain
1t strikes me that the fellow that gets
cleaned up should treat, and the faster he
does it the better. lie has everything to
gain and nothing to lose. Lots of fellows
treated to day on that principle"
Ibid not like the ,chuckle which accom-.