The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-15
MULyANEY TELLS ABOUT IT.
The Old Private Thinks Coventry and
Not Drum Head Court Martial Would
Have Been the Proper Thing.
[ From the Boston Record. J

FROM inc BOSTON hccOTu.
> Brattleboro. May ll.-Private Mul
; vaney came down to the p. o. bunga
, low us he persisted in calling it just /,
dusk.
Long before he reached the step
those who were waiting there coul'
, see that something was up for he WA
walking the regulation step the only
step that is ever used on the road L
Mandalay. Again he was talking t,
himself Ii was when he WAS disturbed
that these two soldier traits returned
to him and those on the steps wer
Ianyious for the revelation.
Mulvaney began it himself. So
knew it would come he said. "lts
only the wolf that will suckle a strange
cub from loSe and you can never fit d
Mauser bullet into Martini rifle
But | did not think it would come Sc
soon. When your mess secrets leak ou
it's time somebody should be recalled
but the proper course is coventry not q
drum head court martial yet that (
wot it's come to.
He stopped for a while to take sol
itary drink from flask. II know yer
temperance folks he said 80
won't offend YER then he replaced the
flask in his pocket. Il never told you
about the row up at our bungalow did
/? OF course not but there's not a
child on the place but wot as been
playing fight wild wot e knows of it.
ITO begin with | always was sus-
Ipicious when MIsther Kipling and his
wife's folks began to cnum together
It's unnatural from the start and it's
bad for the health. Even elephants
separate from their young when the
young begin to trumpet in the spring,
But at the start you know the Kip
lings and the Balcstiers were all as
happy AS lot of boy ieutenants who
have never seen service-only pictures
of it.
Kipling was ere bui lding his bun
galow and the others were looking on
and each afternoon they used to send
notes to one another built like wig
way messages hoping that they'd
slept well and they liked the new
house.
A regiment is Away at its best Just
before an outbreak. 'Ow sweet says
| TO meself looking on and so loving
too.
Well i'm that's kipling you know
was subpoenaed yer know Just before
his house was finished and had to 20
off on a for ced march to write some
more stuff about me and--Jack Or
theris. There was a council the day
before and when he left we all knew
he left Beatty, that's his brothcr-in-
law. Balestier in charge.
Now, Beatty, apparently is decent
young fellow The bad thing
about him is his name and the fact
that he has never grown old ia wa
ger my gun kit and all that Beatty
Betty was Betty and that is Il woman's
name. Now you can give a man
handle like that in fun and he will
thrive on it. The smartest man in the
Goohi Hill campaign was called Jen
ME in the mess tent and at barracks
but wen yer regularly Christian one
wild the chaplain in robes that way
why 1t spoils them. Then as was
saying, he used to forget she was %. |
That means staying up later than one
should and getting liquid stuff inside.
1.-Two days after his taking hold |
Beatty ran a sewer down from the Bun ,
,alo into the land. I've seen that done
n India and made up NY mind that
here was something beside fancy |
arming in his mind when he did it.
We'll, Kipling came back and the
Wig wag work commenced and all his
lined up like side boys all ex.
ept Beatty. lie began to work his
ancy farming and kept away from
iipling. Il was as plain as day that
omething was up and We in the eta
lies soon made up our mind that it
vas over money.
Beatty was running over and had
ouched Kipling for $500 it was said.
When the break came he asked him
or the money.
Slowly stopping in the midst of his
tory to curl his legs in dervish fash
on, Muvaney continued lowering mis-
dice, land Beatty told him to take
is sewer off his land. | think it must
ave been the first he knew of it but
t II that night the sewer was down in
new place and another demand was
lade for the cash
AS long as men talk to one another
GU can feel sure of the end, the out
nd out murder always comes after |
pell of silence. So as long as they
ONE Ginning each other like
ouple of non CONS who are too proud !
f their pretty faces to have it out
I'd not pay much attention, not but {
ot others would have died just fer :
le sake of hearing such vocal fire |
orks with their 'phoon! phoon!!'
nd red fire. L
eff forced march had been ordered n
ther of them there would be peace h
DIV instead of a court martial with Ii
eople who do not know the nature Of 1
lings. The luck though was against 5
lem and then came the black silence
tween the two. In the black sill ence :,
10 eye or the tongue are never lifted. '
Beatty began to fret under tn at for q
the weaker man it is like me citing h
lantom. He could not talk to Kip =
az, so he began TO talk about him,
netting which he never would have
me had he only grown old in the n
oper time. ?
No man is always on dress parade !.
ere are times when he leaves his f,
hole kit off and those were the time
city taxed. He told the truth, per- :.
Fps. at the start, which was another !;
ID thing. Kipling should have kept :, =,
m quiet, but he talked and as he was ~
campaigner there was less excuse e,
: him. His stories, it seems, stung Nv
,tty a good dea! more than Betty's
1 him.
- You never heard the story of the I'll
IN who net 100 lies, did you? al
ell. that is another story. but as that 81
IN sold his soul to dervish, grew til
ard and died in the native quarter tn
anting the Koran and the English IS
rsion of the Bible, why, you can see an
) feelings were being stirre, up. ti'
The last thing Betty heard was