The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-07
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 Speaking about proAihisioe," sait Misery Brown one day wAile we sat lyins on the dump ef the Blue Tail Fly, an prone to allow that the more yea pro. hioif, the more you a-all at oace--discov. CT tAa, yos have more es les failed ,s ptokiois.
 Nov, you can win man over to yous vay of thinking somesimes, bus you masnt do tt with the bat,-end of : seie- graph pole. feu might eonver, h,m that way, perhAps, ba, tae mental shock and phrenologscal concussioa ct the arramen, might be disas,foas to the convert A,n- self
 A man once sad to me that rum vas the devils dr,nk, that S,tAn's home was filled with the odor oi hc, rum, thA, per- dition vas soaked with speed rum and rum pureh. 'Yos wot no. said he. the rum rum has ros. Why Misery Bro~a. said he, rum Is my bste noE' sad | d,ds', care what he ased ii for, he'd al- ways faad II very ~Afming to the system. l told him he could use u for he, bese nosr, or blanc mAnge. or any of those fancy drinks; l d,dnt care.
 Hut the worst tune ever had grAp. ping with the great enemy reckon, wAs tn the later yeArs of the var, when | pretty near squashed the rebellion. Gsim- visaged var had wosa ue 1sws pretty well. played the biz tuba in the rer,- mental band, and l began to sigh for peace.
 We had been on the march all sum- mer, tt seemed 10 me. Wed travel through dust ankle-desp all day that was just like ashes, and halt in the red. hot sun hve minutes to make coffee. Wed Make oar cnfEee in i've minutes. and sometimes we'd make 1t la the middle oi the road {; but that's neither here nor there.
 We finally found out that we would make stand tn certain town. and tha, the .. Nj. had two barrels of old and re- liable whisky in store. We also found out that we couldn't get any for medical purposes nor anything else. All we could do was 10 suffer on and wait till the var olosed. didn't feel like postponing the thing sr.y:el!, se began to investigate. The grea, foe of humanity was stored ,n a tobaeco-house, and the .. NJ. slept three nights between the barrels. The chances for a debAuch looked peaked anc slim in the extreme. However, there vas basement below, and got in there one night with a half-ineh auger and two wash-tubs. Later on there was sound of revelry by night. There was eonsid- erable on with the dance, let Joy be un confined
 The next day there was a spouSy sp- pearance on the top of the head. which seemed to be confined to our regiment as result of the sudden giviag gay. as i, were, Of prohibitory restrictions. 1, was very dlsagreeabie day. remember All nature seemed clothed in gloom, and K. F.. Morse. F. D. ., seemed to be ,n charge of the proceedings. Red-:yed Re- gres was everywhere.
 We then proceeded to yeasn for the other barrel ot woe, that we might pile up some more regret, and have enough misery to las, us through the balance oi the campaign. We acted on this sug. gestion, aud, with firm resolve and the same half-ineh auger. we stole once more into the basement of the tobaeco-house bored nineteen consecutive holes into the atmosphere, and then an init. mate friend of mine bored twenty seven distiset holes in the floor. only to bore through the bosom of the night with a dull thud. Eleven oi us spent the mos, of the night boring into the floor. and al three o'clock A. N. il looked like ham. mock, it was so full of holes. The quar- ,ermas,er slept on through 1t all. He slept ln very audible tone of voice, and every now and then we could hear him slumbefing on-
 At last we decided that he was sleep ing middling close to that barrel, so VI began 10 bore closer to the snore. Il was my turn to bore, remember, and took the suger with heavy heart. bored through the floor, and for the firs time bored into something besides oxygen. 1t was the quartcrmzsie1 A wild yell echoed through the southern oonfederacy, and pulled out my augef 1t had on the point a strawberry mark and a fragment Of one of those old-fash toned woven wire gray shirts, suea al quastermassers used to wear.
 "l remember that we then Jeff tn. tobacco-house. h ,he hurry we forgo two wash tubs, a half.inch auger, zns o8o. .3bi new halElneh zuger holes ,ha had never been used"
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