The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

amt my kind. In the two meetin's here,
the one parsons so high toned can't make
out what he's drivin' at, an tother one
says that all as don't believe tist his way is
booked for everlastin' roastin', an / can't
swoller none o. that. 'Tan't the kind of
jine no company where can't understand
the articles, nor kin be skeered inter sal
walton, ner bounced inter heaven by the
scruff of my neck. An So when Forty
eight goes to Sunday School an church
every Sunday, jist goes out Their where We
met us, an sets there, quiet an tlIinkin'--
'maginin' as her an the leftenant is back.
'Tain't bit lonesome Or solomcollyA:iist
rest Of the week, an, 'cordin' to my lights
does me more good nor a-going to meetin'
could. don't know ner say as I'm right,
but that's the way j feels it in me.H
Unable and unwilling to discuss theolog-
ical subjects, inquired, to change the con
versation SLOW came the boy to be
called by our old regimental number ?'' = .
With short laugh, Sam answered !:
'sWhy, sir, first time l ever seed the little
chap, he wor a wee chunk of a babby an
| had my old forage cap with the number
on top it, on my, head, Moment babby
seed them brass figgers, he went fur 'em
and raised particular till he got 'em.
Them numbered quiet him quicker'n a
dose of paregoric, and SO when she made
him a little cloth cap takes an sticks
them numbers on it, and he wor tickled to
to death, and would raise his hand an pint
'em out; an SO everybody got ter calm
him Forty-eight, till we most forgit faint
his real name,-an' he's proud oft, too
when / seed you to-day, Colonel, it
most tuck my breath. 'Twor only last
night, when Forty weight says to me, .Sar-
gint, says he, tell something about our
regiment ); an course told him lots an
then today, when 4. seed yor. says +
Forty EIGHT, says l, there comes our Col
onel'"
'Where, Sargint ~ says he 'where?''
''Here p says I, a-walkin' right down on
ye.'' ' t
can he was startin' boy like, to run fur
We, but says /, Study man As We We're
Don't We know better'n that, arter all my
drillin' ye9 Git inter line-quick +! Right
back ards, march Halt! Right dress !!
Front An as ye come up, give the
order, Salute 7 and then, Parade, Rest 7
An didn't he jist do it, Colonel, didn't he
jjist !? Oh! I'm trainin', him up in the
way he should go-leastwise as fur as
knows-an' he's man an soldier, he
is -'si' '2H t''ii t''' ''',i''
? We had reached rooted, small and
comfortable house, Sans house. He pre-
pared supper with the skill of an accom-
plished cook. The meal over, we sat long
in conversation upon the porch. The boy
was asleep in bed, and then, in the quiet
moonlight, the brave, supplemented old
soldier, told me of Ter who had rescued
him from his besetting sins.
eye see Colonel, arter we was mustered
out an come up the leftenant bought this
little house, an we started to fix things for
the wife to come on. An we worked !
you bet kept middlin' stiddy, cause
had him to look arter still, ! took, my tod
regular. Well, when we'd fixed fur as we
could, seed he We're, getting sicker'n
sicker fur sight of her an baby; an at last
when the check fur his back pay come, he
jist, shut right down. r. Sam, says he, I
can't stand this no longer I'm off tonight
fur the wife and little Sid Ye see, sir, she
were down to Saint Louis, at her; fathers,
waitin' fur him to cum, fur her. That
night he started ''spectin'' to be back in
bout three weeks. Fore he went, he gave
me fifty dollars of mine he had in. keeping
for me. | seed him off, an then walked
back with the fifty in my pocket. Were
mighty lonesome here, an so I starts over
to the rum-mill flu, company. | suppose
ye can guess the rest. In about an hour i
were warped the worst ye ever seed--you
knows what am SIGH times--and kept it
up. In two weeks don't believe | eat a
full days rations, ,Jist poured rum, rum,
inter me all the time, until ! were. as crazy
as a boss in a fire. And made this little
town howl" y; ,..,,,,,., os,Fs, .,,f.o .,,eo,
1T was late one night when | come roll
ing home from the tavern, full as a tick, Ar
mutterin' crazy like, and strikin out
at things / thought was following me,
when, as come up near. the door here, |
seed man moving around in that setting
room. There was, a candle ,!a-burning in
the bed room, and the man seemed to be
a-trying to light a fire. ] Were jist aching
to pitch inter some IN, an as | didn't ex7
pect the leftenant fur a week yet, | hadn't
no thought but it were somebody in there
arter something wrong. give one yell,
jumped in, an | had him quickern light
ming. I'm ugly when I'm warped, as.ye
know, Colonel, an it wornt hall, a second
before I'd that man up over my head an
wor jist going to bring him smash down
onto the hearth, when the door of that bed
room opened, an she come OUT not a.
rushing and a-screaming-1jist quiet and
quick-like thistle down blowed across the
floor by a puff of breeze- She come, right
up to, me--all in white she were--77an', her
long hair a-streaming, an big eyes a-look-,