St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-04-22

demands and misconduct Of the
Federal troops. They demanded
Of every family al arms, such 40
guns, pistols, etc. Father knowing
this posted me to say yes, il any
inquiry was made Is to our having
. gun, thinking It was better to
give them up than to have the house
searched, which was their custom.
Accordingly, one day, when father
father was gone, ! was asked the
question, "Have you any guns in
this house!" l answered, Eyes,
sir, two." Whereupon I was or
deled to bring them, which I did,
one at time. Father said I should
have told them ''one." but it was
TOO late. We were then left with
out anything to kill game with,
which was plentiful, and would
have been . treat to us IL We were
able to get them. Luckily my
step-brother obtained an old gun
which he kept hid, but it was inn
possible to even think Of using it.
Fathers fences soon became the
woodpile for the officers who occu-
pied . house near by. It being
cold, father thought he might just
% we'll hurn it - his enemies,
but when he was breaking It down
he was stopped by one Of the Of
fcers, who told him not to take It.
'sBut ito mine," said father. ut
makes no difference, We must have
wood, 90 you will have to leave IT,"
Was the reply, but they let him take
what he had on the cart. They
would come into your yard and
look for anything their fancy sought.
II it was found, away it went. and
it was useless to protest.
One day Mrs. Peabody gave
mother . nice hunk Of mess pork.
1t was much larger than some peo-
pie would call . piece, and she boil
ed it whole, endeavoring to Ok for
. feast. She had just taken it from
the pot and placed it in . large
dish on the kitchen shelf, when .
soldier stepped right up to the door
aud spoke as follows: "Madam,
have you anything to eat that il
cooked?" mo, SIR" was the an
swer, knowing it could not be hum
ger that prompted him to do this
kind Of racket. All the time she
took good care to keep between
him and that piece Of mess pork.
She deliberately walked to the
door, leaving the meat directly be.
tween them and placing her arms
akimbo, faced this imputent fellow.
"Please give me . spoon and .
fork" was his next problem and
mother has never solved it yet.
But with the precaution to shadow
that hunk of meat she went to her
knife box and took q German sill
yer knife and fork. "Oh, Madam,
any old ones will do" Not wish
ing to leave her post she told him to
take those, A. she had no others
swell, never mind, then, I will not
take them, they are too good" thus
saying he was gone.
They caught . small dun pony
belonging to Mr.. T. H.. then .
resident Of our village, brought him
In our yard, and took our saddle,
which they seemed to know exact
~ where to find, placed it on the
pony, fastened the grit. then placed
another girt over the saddle, and
then one man pulled on each girt
until the poor horse actually groan-
ed with pain. Then one Of them
jumped on the saddle and of they
went.
Mr.. r. w., an old and reliable
citizen of our village, was the prey
of this class Of soldiers. They
were camped in every vacant spot
all over the place. His cows were
shot down for mere sport. His
house was some blocks from the
river and all the troops around
would 60 to his we'll to get water,
until it had only six iuches Of wa
ter left in il.
SMALL BOY.
no BE CONTINUED.