The National tribune., 1893-07-27

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"'Shut up! Hang the ham right back
where you took it down.
"'We ought to be just as well fed Rs the
rebels growled, singing the meat down
on a tub of sausage
Pick up that ham and do just as I told
you,' cried Sam, still edging nearer to me
and shaking his finger the while. Put it
right back up there-and you shall have
more he added, in his ordinary pleasant
voice, when / had rehung the ham. The
rebel, who had looked ON complacently until
these last words, changed color suddenly.
"'Yes, you shall have more repeated
Sam, beneEolently. Hway, down there! !!
send up an empty wagon, good strong one,
Bud
"' What do you mean by this, sub? Am
L not TO be protected in my rights, and is this
man not to he punished?'
{" l mean business, sir. We are not
PROTECTING REBELS
now, but hunting them, and this man was
only doing on his own hook what l am
about to do for the Government
well, the old fellow reared and pitched
and charged, but it didn't help him bit,
and while he did his duty to the devil we
loaded into the wagon yards on yards of
serpentine SAUSAGE, huge bricks of the SOL
diers' friend, the s)wbelly, and topped 1T off
with deep layers of the old gentleman's
succulent hams; though, of course, we left
plenty for his own support. When every
thing was loaded Sam had the wagon driven
around and placed in line with the other
teams, which were now ready TO art.
the dinner We We're to eat at the Gen
erals special invitation was not yet forth
coming, and we waited impatiently for some
time rather than miss it. To every inquiry
we received for answer that it would be
ready in few minutes, suh.' / noticed Jel-
lison glance rather uueasily at the surround
ing woods and then spring into the saddle.
Well we can't wait any longer he said
Gen. Wood, are you ready to accompany
us?'
"'No, sub. am not going to Bolivah p
"' You are going to Bolivah; alive if you
choose, dead if you don't
"Well, but you won't go off without ac-
cepting my hospitality, sub. Dinnah is now
ready, and -
But I have no time to eat it. Climb
into that wagon
90 Bat ] cahn't go to town, suh.'
"' 'No-more-words,' spoke Jellison,
drawing a revolver, while his black eyes
snapped in so dangerous fashion that the
rebel at once surrendered. He begged to be
allowed to get his horse, for he didn't like
to ride On the corn, and when Jellison
granted his request, he sent black after
the animal. ] took the opportunity to in
form the Sergeant of the words the old gen.
tleman had used when he cOllared me at the
smoke-house. Sans eyes blazed as he list
ened to me, and when / had finished he
looked toward the rebel in manner that
wonld have
SCARED TO DEATH
that gentleman had he baen looking When
the horse arrived, fine animal, by the way,
with magnificent saddle, the rebel moved
TO mount him. but Jeliison promptly COW
cred him with his revolver, and said:
Don't you straddle that horse, Johnny,
if you value your lifei Now, you crawl up
on that load Of corn,-not a word, you
scoundrel,--up with you. Farrar, you and
Pete sit there beside him. II ne attempts to
leave that wagon, want you tosee how many
little round holes you can bore in his -
carcass. Now, looky here, Johnny Reb, you
call yourself Adjutsnt-General, and say you
were elected by the people; did they ever
tell you you were traitorous dog? You
have sent after bushwhackers to capture US,
and you invited us to dinner to hold us till
tEcy get ucIS Ou DlduE 1OuE DDdebS
10 one of nay men that you wouldn't go to
Bolivar, and that we couldn't take you.
Now, we will see if you don't 90 to Bolivar.
And if any bushwhackers turn up to inter
cept this wagon-train, it will be the very
worst thing that ever happened to you,
Susan. for I'll make it a point myself to let
daylight into you. Forward, march,
THAT settled it, and we had no more
trouble. We got quite sociabie with our
prisoners on The way. The younger ones
told MS that they had belonged to Pope's
rebel battery at Shiloh, and had got so terri
bly, cut up that they didn't want any more
war in theirs. The old fellow
MADE QUITE SPEECH;
told us how ignorant we poor Northern boys
were to be led around by INSCRIPTIONS poll
ticians, and how we ought to go home to our
mothers. etc. Oh, he was tonguey repro
bate, and we finally had to shut him mp.
When we got to camp the younger men
took the iron-clad and were turned loose,
but the old fellow refused TO take the oath,
and was sent North 10 ruminate during the
war.
"Old Pap Brayman highly complimented
Serg't Jelllson for the efficient manner in
which he had conducted the expedition,
u.
Jellison also made himself present of the
rebels fancy saddle, turning his own over to
the Government in its place.
reasoned that, after all our trouble to
get those hams, our mess ought to have one
for its exclusive benefit, so / abstracted the
best one could get in an absent-minded
sort of manner from the wagon. That
night, when we gathered in our tent, found
that three other boys, all of our mess who
were on the expedition, had reasoned in
something the same way / did, for four hams
adorned our larder. Oh, how we feasted
"But next day felt bad again. Maj
ohr took me around about shooting squir-
rels, made me confess, and ordered me to the
Captain for punishment. told him ! would
take any punishment he gave ME, but did
not want to carry any blame chunk on my
shoulders up and down before Headquarters
That made him laugh, and he dismissed me,
saying: Wen see if we can't save you the
chunk; and ! guess ne did, for never heard
of it afterwards"
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