The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-06
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 .I de.t vans nssasw asssnd n slsrs, said the eEucoEynan to h - hey, e he cnme . tke ooar wikh . miI3- nzy uniform oA cd safueeds she Yyoce1y- msn psevious to kelp1ng hlmse,ft e seune fuif, undsssfand you have ben Ae maans lot nearly killing your fnfAsr. thas you run . hsycaet fhrough him, and scared him haIftc death. Whsf cn eassh did you mean !s and the gTucezyman fcs bohind the cheese-oox and took ID a kni6e to dekend himseM h case the li1sle soldier at,empeed se inlsre him. Next thing yos VII eHlsA q can nihal in the eavy, and 60 tc eating pec- p,e..
 aoA, doat be afaid,. said the bad bey. "Nobody vouid eat yoe unle~ you vas put to soak for . few mcuth& "a is all right He was . little ffigAtsnsd, that is Sns
 .Tell me abcu, t." said the srocey- man, reassured aTell me fl the old man weakened. He told me he vas TO- ing ae to the camp and was going in to - the sAam battie, guards os 10 guards, without paying. He said his soa vas one cf the soldiers, and he could pass him, if he vas O guard. He said if his boy put on any sNle over him with . gun he would take the gun away from him, and take him across his knse. and maui the military spirit all out oi him, throw the gun away and 60 in. Did he do it!"
 Not much he didn't do it. said the bad boy. Pa can run me at home, but when 1 enlist zs . soldier, and receive orders, will obey them, as pa has f6and out, al the expense of his panis. You see my company was pus on guard at Dead head hill, to keep deadheads from seeing the sham basfle and drill without paying, and we had orders to halt anybody that attempted to pass, and If they didn't 70 away to arrest them, and have the cor poral of the guard take them to the guard house. Pa thought he had . soA thing because his little boy vas on guard, and he came along and said Hello, Hen, I'm gong in.' Thought it vas good time to show my authority at the beginning oi my military career, SO l inflated my lungs and said, Halt. My -s:ce ssunded % much iike the regular army that pa was . little bit scared, and he looked again to see if it vas actually his child speaking Q sPuaky. When he wAss sure 1t vas me he smiled one of his foscsd smiles and said, That win be all right, bub, am going into the show When he called me bub' 1t made me hot, and got right in front ol him, with my bayonet at charge, and l said, Move another inch at your peril ? Pa looked at the bayones, and at my hsshing eye, and he said he would lam ne foi that when he got me home. Then he began to tell me what he had done for me, bringing me up like christian, and nov vas going to prod his liver with a cheese-.nife didn't say any thing. 'cause it is against the rules to argue when you are on guard, and pa thought he had got me scared, and he said fl didn't take that gun away from his stummick, and 70 away, he would cuff me side of the head. Gosh, but 1 was annoyed. All the soldiers were watching me, and they knew it vas my pa that had stopped, and they were watching the result. If weakened, and pa went in, that settled it. The whole crowd would 20 in, and walk right over me, and l would be in disgraee- Pa ought to have known better than to try to pass me, aftes all his talk abou, military discipline when he was in the army, but he was only sutler, anyway Well, when pa had threatened to cuff me. he started to 20 around me, next to the fence, and told him to halt again, and he wouldn't, % run the bayones night through the back side of his pants, aad into the fence, and had him pinned. 1 didn't want to hurt him, and l knew his pants lFere ioose and very good cloth. I He found he was caught, and as he struggled and vas held up by the pants, he said was condemn fool, and that had no veneSatioa, and no love oi my parents. held him there and called for the corporal of the guard, and when the guard came pulled the bayooet cut ol pas pants and the fence, anc they took him away. told the officer of the day the pSisooss vas my tathes, who had tired to play it on his lstie boy and sneak in, and l asked the officer to give pa . lecture and two shillings asd ies him 70 asd pay his admission jee, aAes he rot to the guard-house, which he did. Well, vhea 1 got oG dnty the company ssr- rounded me ard said was . geod sol- dieE, aAd the coload complimented nc. He said it was a tryiag sifuatioa for . new recruit, and had acsed nob,y. A soldier on duty had no night to know anybody, os show any lAvorA"
 That vas nghl HeaseEy," said the grocerymaa. "Your pa scssd He aa cd fool, and you ought to have jabhsd him where there vas some meat, hslssd of pants. But what is t about finding your "a on the hattje 6eid, apparently dead, aAer the sham battle ?
 As near as can gss as 1t, from what my chum says, pa vas tsying to make a v,ax@v If ,,os,uw G>lfn~r~ k~1sSre tks, k~