Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-16
KAMAUGA. By Captain F. A. MITOHEL. ICopyright, 1891, by American Press Assosia'
 tion.
CHAPTER III. A DEVOTED CONFEDERATE

the mire often to lie down at night with no means of lifting themselves out of pools except by cutting the wet branches from tho trees. and on these making bed in drcnched clothes. The artillery soon cut up the roads so that the guns sank to the hubs of the wheels. The right continued to march toward the left and ill the direction of the base of the Cumberland plateau, where Miss Betsy Baggs and the others were pass ing between the lines The UnionistS were moving upon gaps ill the foot hills held nv the ConfederateS, and nec eSSary to the latter to prevent their ene- mics getting on their right, and thus compelling them to leave their fortitica tions at Tullahoma and fight on open ground
 It was the day that the Union men attacked these gaps that Miss Baggs passed under Confederate protection, and the farmer and the two young peo- pie with him wvro also pursuing their route south. Fortunately for him, the farmer, being ou the flank of the two armies, Was not forced to pass over roads cut up hy either. After Major Burke had administered the oath not to divulgr anything they had seen con- Cerning the l'niun forces tu the farmer and the young girl i'll tho wagon with him the considered tho boy too young to treat ill the same way, the party were suffered to depart and proceeded down the road.
 Jake, said the farmer, skipping the horses backs with the reins, what hcv you l'arned at skulc::'
 IL armed how ter play hop scotch and 'shinny,
 II don mean thet kind. Imean real l'arnin.
 "Jakty was at a great disadvantage, pa. remarked tho girl on the rear seat, "hrcause he was obliged to go ill classes with little bits of boys You remember he didn't know his letters when he went to school
 No more did you, v said the father
 ''Oh, vtS, I did. l began to study them month before I went away, and 1 taught ,Jakey, 50 that he knew some- thing about them, too, when he got there.
 Air they doin much talkin bout the war up nu'th:'
 "Wcn. it isn't at all liko it is down hyar" lno suutherner will ever change l the pronunciation of this wOrd). They take lots of interest i'll it, and all that; | but, laws, it's one thing to get mp i'll the morning and read the papers bout bat | ties and such things. and another to have soldiers running all over you, specially taking the garden truck and the horses | outrn the barn-l mean out of the barn. l Teacher she had the hardest work to break mo from saying 'outen' for 'out of. It seems she hasn't quite done il yet " She spoke tho last words with sigh.
 "I~rdy, +uuri. y talk like fine lady compared i1h vha; y did afore V went no'th. Jake, would V like ter drive 'em:''
 "Ryckon.
 The father handed the reins to his ron, who, constituting that he had not driven A horse for " year, handled them with considerable skill.
 How did you leave ma:' asked tht daughter,
 ''Waal. v'rmaw she war heap lone some 'thout " ms, and she's been [ worritin fo fear va git sick up thal 'ith 10 one ter tend tvr y, but sence tn; time fo' VT comin hum heZ drawct nigh shes : puckertd up pretty peart. The boom of gun Camc faintly iron far down on the lower level, and tn cannonading heard by Corporal Ratigal and his charge began. Taking up tn whip, the c"untryman gave his horses cut,
 'Iwant ter make hum afore somep'l happru> Thar'> goln ter be a big tigh 'hout Tullyhoomy. Thar's forts al round the place and big guns on em. y
 The horses trottrd un briskly for short distance. when. looking ahead, tn farmer could Srv the picket post. H s,t his pass ready, and when they reach t,i the post an officer came out to eX anime if.
 "Is vour name Ezekiel Slack" Ii asked of the farmer.
 ''Zcke Slack; yaas, thet's my name,
 And yours" to the girl, raising hi forage cap admiringly. Missouri Slack,
 Tho other name on the pass refers the boy. suppose You have a nam, sonny. haven't vOu:" he asked absently while he was studying the pass, thoug it iS questionable if the inquiry was n' intended to show some facetiousness b' fore the pretty girl.
 'Hev got ha'r:''
 Oh. Jakt,v," said his sister, don fall back into that habit of asking que tions instead of answering them. Nc know how hard they tried to break yc of it at school And say hair. Il, 'ha'r'
 II got a name " said Jake "Dr , reckon n boy Is goin ter git on 'itho, q name:'
 Well, what is it." asked the office smiling.
 Jake
 Jake what?" slack" answered the farme 'These two uns is my children. Tn L been ter skule upin Ohio. They got lc
 O. larnin Reckon they Il down the O
 man,
 Union or Confederate sympathies = "Union.
 \ All right. Go ahead.
 Leaving the picket, they came to
 opening in the country which enabl
 them to get view of the region lyi n to the west The farmer. though ( It sirous of getting on. could not resist
 temptation to rein ill his horses n
 watch the fighting, or the distant e
 dences of it. that morning going on
 Hoovcr's Gap Volleys of musket - were mingled with the deeper tones 
 awhile. when the booms began agai
 continued and rapid. A white smo r rose above a ridge on which Confeder; to cannons were smelling the advanci
 Union troops on the ground belo
 Souri Slack thought of the lives u
 were passing from under that smoke a