Daily Republican., 1882-08-08
AFICElNG TOAST.
To the Boys VINO Never got Home
Amus1mE Productions.

To tho Boys VINO Never got Home
Amusing Productions.
The following, from the Post and
Camp, will no doubt be appreciated by
the old soldiers:
"At a recent Camp. fire, given by W.
H. Sargent Post, No. 20, u. A. R., of
GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, Comrade Thos.
T. Croft read letter of regret from one
of the invited guests, George W. Peck,
who was unable TO attend. It is an
amusing production. Says the writer:
~ don't know what it is, but there is
something in beans that makes men
sociable and reckless. Beware of beans
Tom, as you value your future happi-
ness. Look not upon the bean when it
is baked and giveth its color in the pan
for at last 1t sWelleth like a cucumber.
But would like to be there, Thomas,
and take the old soldiers by the hands
and look into the eyes that are becom-
ing dim, aud notice the effect of Father
Times penciling on the face of the boys
who
TWENTY YEARS AGO
were full OF vitality and as kitteny as
any man that ever kept step to the rat.
tiug of a canteen against a cartridge
box. Boys, do you realize that you are
growing old? 1t is hard to realize it,
but if fanother war were to break out
your little baby that you left in
mothers arms twenty years ago, crow
ing at the hand me down blue uniform
in which you are disguised, would be
the chap the Government would want.
Boys, you are rapidly becoming old
back numbers Though you feel
You g 81 nugh to stub around home,
you ara rxempt' now. Do you realize
that tn nLtle baby girl that chung to
, on .. you said goodbye twenty years
ago,
WITH TEARS IN YOUR EYES
a. big as a glass paper weight or AL
EDITORS diamond pin, Ia now woman
married, and that another tabV Is try
ing to utter the word grandpa" when
you come in putting on your youthful
airs? 1t is pleasant now to chase the
festive bean around the home camp.
Ere. and talk of the nights whom you
slept on the ground in pup tent or
on some battlefield, when your wet
and muddy pSntalOons legs were
frozen stiff a. dried Goldfish, while
you dream that every star that was
looking down from above was the eye
Of dear one at home beCkoning you to
Hold the Fort and hurry up and get |
through with tho Goolishness and come
home.
YOU CAN LAUGH NOW
IS you think how you got up in the
after such nights rest, look
ng IS though you had been drawn
through brush fence. You who are |
eft have . right to be happy, but in |
;he midst of your bean banquet let nae
Lsk you to stand up with your tin cup
# black coffee and drink 10 the boys |
who never got home,' the bravo fellows |
Vhs returned not to meet the loved ones
hey parted with twenty years ago. Let
Is hope that the great Congress above |
removed the disabilities of the boys |
Who left vacancies in their regiments,
md that the
FEW CHICKENS THEY TOOK
n the way OF business from the enemy
will not be entered up against them on
he Big Book, but that the provost
,uard on duty at the gates OF the New
'erusAlem will present arms to them
nd toll the boys they are welcome to
be best there is, and that when we all
et in our work here, and are ready to
DIN our regiment in Heaven, that the
9llows that we buried years ago may
tand on the parapet, as we come strag.
ling in, and give us the old soldiers
Velcome, with three times three and
tiger. And we shall say to them:
All right comrades, we should have
cen here before only we were detained
y business.