Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-08
MAJ. CROSS WIFE.

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man app=ire! worn out with some secret
grief ss3lie fnysteTlotlS trouble. | made Maj
Fowitrs acquaintance on one Christmas eve,
after having dine-i a little better than usual,
ar xRS corrszISondingiy elaIe'i, and ttlt
must talk To somebody ~, faut de fuienx,
tai.el to Aisn Generally at the Rice and
Curry, when u member whom we have ~
been introduced To addresses us, We put on
wrongtsl end indignant air-as u rule we
couJ answer. II We do We make the man who
Eas thus dariasiy addressed Us understand
his H,,lase. It Is thus we assert our suIeri-
Ority Perhaps this Is why We have the
reputation of being cliquey
Why It was DO not know There is no
other word for tive ''chunHled,r literally
chunncd, at ouce We had 10th served IN
the SANE presidency. we had met the same
peoplc, but Maj Fowler was senior 10 me.
lie nad been through the mutiny, | had not
lt was rather gaastly affair, and cannot
SEQ Why he should hive coniidesl It to n1e. AT
any rate, this Is What lie told me
| was only lieutenant then-a lieutenant
in TIE tn Bengal native infantry. The
mutiny bad already broken out in our presi-
dency, but our regiment was supposed to he
particularly well Affected kerimaiad was
u Hrrtchcd place; 1t was one Of the dullest
and hottest stations IN tue presidency. We
were very hard up for European officers:
soMe were On eavo-of course. they were
hurrying baca as fast as the + d U. boats
could carry them. some we're on detachment
duty, others away on special employment,
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