The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-10-03
STEALING CHICKENS.
roo MANY FEATHERS SCATTERED
ABOUT THE CONGRRssNAN's TENT.
4 Way They Have OF PinSinE Johr In the
t.reat West.
From the Milwaukee san.l

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From the Milwaukee shn
Some veteran soldicrs Of the late war
| are about rs full Of meanncss ns they Can
hold. The Sun has beaI Informed OF
wicked trick thcy played on one Of the
incest men that ever lived, and its in
dignation knows no bounds. At the re-
cent oncamppcnt NJ veterans AZ Ipmah,
Gil. Woodward, 81 ihc oid Second Wis
cousin rcgimclt, wnc present, and had a
tent al tu himself. He WAS elected Con-
2lcs man / ON the LA Crosse district
III fall, but the coDfoundcd soldiers for
gyt MI abon' that and only looked upon
:. IN n. "nil. Woodward" After lie had
e;ired crowd Of these wicked -oIuiers
Procured a lot oi feathers aud heads q
prinp chickens, and scattered them all
| round WoVdwad's tent, and at daylight
| he guard woke Wood ward M Hnd told
him that there was q FARMER wanted to
| cc him. Woodward thought maybe the
| arIuor was qOnc member Of his Old rcgi'
| mcmt. and he got ny, and while he "''N"
| washing himself in Tin basin, bis sus-
pendcrs hanging down his hips, farmer
| stuck his head N the tent and askei
| Woo'anrd il he wanted to pay for those
| hers hc stole or have law snit wool
ward didn't know what hens the farmer
IN, mt, but being n lawyer, law snlt
va night into his hand, 50 he "eI't lac
al .ssrd he had rather haze a law sui', II
il was all the ra;nc to the farmer.
| Gan riolit. you can have it said the
| armcr. as he looked mad. "By gum,
| NV man who steals my clichens will get
| I llorcd the balance ii his natural life,
and be l,-,knd at Woodward rs though
,c ,hongh. he would steal anything that
| was lying around.
What il this abont juvenile poultry,
| asked Woodward, and he wiped his face
~ glnny sack, aud came ont in front
| Il hi tent in his hare feet, the water
dripping from his hair, and his whole ap-
prnrlice that Of man who lns been
weakened from much needed sleep, and
.ylo is thoroughly mad, II AIN ~
hickcn thief, am the successor in Com
,rcss Of the great aud good Judge Hum
phr,y mas, sir--a man.
| "Ncycr mind Congr"s-, hook o them,
sad the farmer, pointing to the feathers
and heads and feet ON the ground, aud q
Jew feathers ON Woodwarl'e pants tina
the boys had sncoked 81 the tent and put
there.
Woodward is ncarslghtcd, and h'
could not see anything on the ground
50 he put on his glasses and stopped owe
md ,urr enough there were 'ethcr
lrIty. by that time the boys had sur
"ul d"d the farmer and told him Wood
ward was one Of the hardest nuts IN Tia
State, and that he wns II terror where
ever he WIS known, and that the bes
hing the farmer could do was to &
zone and +, move the r, 1T Of his chick
ils INTO IN adjoining county until ate
he cncaml mrnt was over. They tol
im 10 watch ont when he was talking I
Woodward or he would pull rcvolvc
md blow him through. Woodward "a
, through the joke at once. He realize
, hat tie boys had been rcveling in chicl
tns, and were quietly giving HIM I'll
, rcdit for it, 40 he called the farmer
him and asked how much he would tai,
: to settle. He said he was young ma
/ Of irreproachablc character no far, al
, rs chicken business was the first II
- lance IN which he had fallen from grac,
lie begged the farmer to he mcrcifn
= md make the charges light, and Il
= Irnvcli's sake lock the secret up in h
| osOm and never let the story get to |
i ,rosse, or he woulG he ruined. He ~,
., ~ had lust been elected to Congress G
y. he reform issue, and it would he han
(; % 20 in for reform in Congress with Il
;, feathers Of those stolen chickens han
1 ing to his garments. He spoke feeling
of the effect this affair would have {
his whole future life, and 30 worked {
the farmers feelings that the granger so
he would settle for II couple OF dollar
. md tnLo AWAY the feathers. After Il
IL farmer had got his money, and had clear,
, np the feathers, and Woodward la
zone into his tent to put on his boot
and the rcvclllc had been sounded M
the boys had cot up all around, Gcner
, Bragg and Colonel Watrous, and Go'
: crnU. Rusk came along and opened IL
] Hap Of Woodwards tent and peeked il
u and Bragg said
J. "Gil., there are evidences of pre-
n slaughter about your tent"
1t Woodward was trgging away at one
II AS boots, which did not seem to go {
Is easy MS usual, and he said, "You fe
COWS think yon are smart, don't you
J and then he turned his boot bottom sic
: mp and cmpticd II couple of ycllowch
u ms feet ont, and finally got the boot o.
Z aid asked the boys in to drink out of
= tin canteen. The farmer will go dow
i to his grave thinking that the hard cit
zen who stole his chickens has got
great big heart in him, and he will n
ways remember the pleading look an
trembling voice of the man who pal
him two dollars.