The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-08-01
A woNpRRFuL MAN.
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bullet holes in him than any other ltving American" said an admiral in our navy whom recently mee al the Fiith Avenue He carries around in his right knee a bullet which he received in Virginia, and he has twelve other wounds. inflicted by sword shell and bullet, seven of which he got in battle. He went into the navy in 1850, Every officer had so fight his duel n tnose aays m;SSa;pss..s ga j;utsnn. or Ned Buntline,' as he has since been better known, fought seven duels when he was thirteen with other officers who had anrcnsed him."
 l asked fl there was not ssme mistake about the age. and the admiral said !: "No; Judson was thir.een, ought to know, for was one ot the officers who had duels with him."
 In answer to further questions, he con- tinued: "Judson was not educated at any was Philadelphia lawyer aud insisted on putting Ed through a tough course ct Latin and Blackstone when he was mere child. The boy rebelled, His father logged him very seveteiy. The boy ran away and went to sea as cabin-hoy when he was eleven years old. sailing around the Horn. The next year he enlisted as government apprentice on board a man. -of.war. He was large of age. strong as horse and precocious. One day a boat of which he was coxswain was run over by Fulton ferry boat and upset in floating ice. She dritted down to Cover, nors Island, where Judsen managed to get ashore with the whole crew. Then he tainted under his injuries and waS taken back to the Mace donian uncon. scious
 "The crew were SO loud in his praises for rescuing couple Of them that the officers united in a request 10 have him made a midshlpman, and President Van Burcn sent on the commission within a fortnight Then we young midd,es wh ,se appointment was due to influence re. fused to mess with him, because he had been common sailor before the mast On the way to the Gulf squadron, on the ship-of-war Levant, where our refusal was made known to him, young Judson chal' ienged thirteen oi us in a day. Some withdrew ,heT refusal and asso ciated with him. but seven ot us fought him one aher the other. m Florida, m New Otleant and in Havana. He didn't get scratch. believe, and four of us were manned for lite. To the satisfaction of everybody m the navy hs established the presumption that he was as good as anybody. Per haps one ciroumstance that reduced the number of midShpmen that he had to 1 fight was liltle exhibition on the way down. The captain, who made a kind of pet of the boy, hung bottle ou. on the yaId-aTm, and udson, at the word of 1 l A. al |. Il let and cut off the string above it with with another. That was the first intima- ton we had that he was, as he IS to-day one of the half-doIcn best shots in the United States"
 Was he known at all as Ned Blunt | line then P l asked.
 "Oh, no he began ,o write couple of years later, and a sketch entitled The Captains Pig,' which he wrote for the hnitk<,6ockS' NagdSiar. under the pseudonym. gave hIm hls first notoriety"
 Judson," or "Ncd Buntlinc," who picked up the rank ol colonel, as chief oi scouts, in the war for the Union, IS by no means a wild man of the woods, as some seem to think. He IS not even a Boho- milan. He owns and lives with an inter esting family in one Of the hapdsomcst houses in the valley of the Upper Dela. ware and Is much esteemed as a citizen He is temperance man in theory and practice. He does no, indulge in tobac. co. He converses in a most entertaining way, and never uses proiane language His residence cost S2o GOO and is sur- rounded by I2o'acfe daity farm. He drives A handsome pair of 2:4o bays, and last year drove them from his nome in the Catskills to Washington, 72o miles. in | nine days. The colonel must have done 1 heap of writing in the las, quarter of q century bu, yol know as much abou, 1t as do.o
 The next day started up the Hudson to hunt up Ned Bun,iine," and found | him pleasantly surrounded, much AS had been told. He is nos aixty-,hiee | years old, and a young sou, four years old, Is the light of the house. He is probably destined for the army, for l had not been in the library ten minutes when the colonel vas putting him through the manual of arms with wooden swofd and | toy gun. The youngS,er has more play things than any other boy in the state, and good many of them are suggestive of mimic battle. " mean that his child- hood shall be happy" said the colonel, fondly regarding him, "as mine was not. l get for him all the toys any body needs during nay boyhood never had kite or ball, a trumpet or a marble. 1 never knew how 10 play. He has trumpe, and tremendous drum and a banjo, and this house is musical. for besides these we have violin and two guitars, a tam borine. orguinette. xylophone and piano. And mean to bring up Eddy with an efecsion for the old flag. Every morn. ing he helps me raise a twenty foot flag on that tall, spruce pole on the lawn, and every night st sundown he and man the halysrds and lower ii. All day every pleasant day it floats when am home, visible for twenty miles up and down the valley"
 The leg that carries the bullet is some what stiff, and asked the colonel shy