Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-16

md now 1 was going to prod his liver
with cheese-knifc. l didn't say,
lnything, cause it is against the rules
to argue when you are OH guard, and
pa thought lie lad cot me scared
md he said ifI didn't take that gun
away from his stummick, and 60
away, he would cuff me side of the
head. Gosh but | was annoyed. All
The soldiers were watching me, and
they knew it was my pa that had
stopped, and they were watching the
result. If / weakened, and pa went
in, that settled it. The whole crowd
would 60 In, and walk right over me
and I would be in disgrace. Pa ought
to have known better than to try to
pass me, after all his talk about mill
tiary discipline when he was in the ar
my, but he was only asutler anyway.
Well, when pa had threatened 10 cuff
Inc, he started to go around me, next
to the fence, and l told him to halt
again, and he wouldn't, so / run the
bayonet right through the back side
of his pants, and into the fence, and l
had him pinned. | didn't want to
hurt him, and l knew his pants were
loose and very good cloth. lie found
he was caught, and as he struggled
and was held up by the pants, he
said | was a condemn fool, and that l
had no vencration, and no love of my
parents. held him there and called
for the corporal of the guard, and
when the guard came l pulled the
blyonet out of pas pants and the
fence, and they took him away.
told the officer of the day the prison
er was my father, who had tried 10
play 1t on his little boy and sneak in
and / asked the officer TO give pa a
lecture and two shillings and let him
go and pay his admission fee, after
he got 10 the guard-house, which he
did. Well, when got OF duty the
company surrounded lie aud said
was good soldier, and the colonel
complinented me. lie said it was a
trying situation for new re, ruit,
and had acted nobly. A soldier on
duty had no right to know anybody,
or show any favors."
"rhat was right, IIonnery," said
the grOceryman. "iOur pa acted
tike an old fool, and you ought IL
have jabbed him where there was
some meat, instead of pants. Bat
what is it about finding your pI on
the battle field, apparently dead, af-
Ter the sham battle?"
"As near as can get at it, from
what my chum says, pa was trying
make party Of young fellows be
ieve that he was managing the shan
battle, Oh account of his being an OLE
veteran, and he walked down on tn
ground between the two armies to cX
1 plain how the thing was going to b
done. Just as he got about in tn
middle of the ground both sides be
gan to fire, and some Of the boys threw
a lot of mud balls at pa, just as tn
guns went of, and he thought he wa
shot in about forty places, and h
laid right down and blatel, and wher
the two armies came near together h
tore off piece Of shirt and held it IL
for a flag of truce, but the armie
thought it was only drunken mal
so they laughed and kept on poppin
away, and pa thought his time ha
come, and he was on his knees whe
policeman went down between tn
cOntending forces and took pa by th,
collar and jerked him away. He toll
} the policeman he was shot all to pieces
and to send for a doctor, but the po
liceman turned pa loose just as tn
} cavalry started to charge, and p
found his legs were all right, and h
, ran all the way home. Ma says p
told her there was mutiny up &
camp, and everybody was being xii
ed. When | came home pa wOuldn
speak to me. lie said was ur
grateful son-of-a-gun, and had eau:
ed his hair to turn gray. If pa ha
any hair il would have turned gra
from fright. But pa has got so h
/, does not put OH any style over IN
now. lie realizes that l have soldier
to back me, and that l am not chill
/, any more, though he says l will liv
to be sorry for jabbing him in tn
pants. lie showed ma his wound an
!, had her sew it up. At first he tol
her he fell out of a four story windo'
onto an iron picket fence, but thi
story wouldn't wash. Well. it is pre-
> ty near time to fall in for drill, and
must CO." and the young soldier ST
luted the groceryman, took sma
muskmelon and started for cam
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