Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-01
BATTLE OF CtlCkAMAUGA.
The Farmer and lila wife Remembered
All It's Important Details.

The Farmer and His wife Remembered
All It's Important Details.
stopped at the farmhouse ON the
battlefield Of Chickainouga and asked
the old farmer sitting OH the doorstep If
he lived there when the battle was
fought and could give me any particu
lars about it.
eyes, sah-lived right yere," he re.
piled as he stood up, "and l shall never
forgit that fout. When got up in the
mawnin and went out to milk, seen
about million Yankee soldiers
around"
"Thar was TO- million of 'em, Sam.
uel, corrected his wife as she came
around the corner of the house.
"Yes, TO- million, sab, and they had
guns and swords and was powerful mud
about somethin. Twas lookin around fur
the COW when monstrously powerful
gineral rode up to me and axed if they
might hev fout Oh my land. / told
him I'd see the ole woman and let him
know"
"And said reckon they mought if
they'd be keerful of the garden sass and
not let the pigs out, added the woman.
Eyes, that's what you said," contin-
ued the husband, land when went out
to feed the hawgs told the gineral so.
He seemed powerfully pleased about it
and said he wouldn't forgit my kind
ness. was feedin the calf when an
other monstrously powerful gineral rode
up and wanted to know if he could git
some breakfast. I told him I'd see the
old woman and let him know
"And I said he could il he paid fur
it" put in the wife.
"Yes. that's exactly what you said,
Hammer, and went out and told him
SO. He smiled and bowed and made his
boss prance around, and bimeby he cum
in. He ate six Eaters, three slices Of
fried pork and monstrous sight Of
bread and butter. axed him il he was
mad at the Cohfeds, and he said he was.
l axed him why, and he said he'd dun
forgot, but was mad all over jest the
same and was bound to give 'em down
the kentry. ! told him it was agin the
Bible to fight"
$50 did l." added the wife.
Eyes, remember you told him so,
and he didn't deny it. He was jest goin
to pay fur his breakfast when another
monstrously powerful gineral rode up
and axes fur me and wants to know IL
he kin hev fout on my land. He was
Confed, and he was Dustin mad.
told him I'd see the ole woman about
it and let him know"
"And I says he kin font if he didn t
tip over the rain bar'l or break down
the plum trees"
"That's what you said, Hammer, and
I'll swear to II, and the Yankee was SO
upset that he went away and didn't pay
fur his breakfast. Then the Confed said
he was hungry, and he ate five taters, TO-
slices Of fried pork and heaps and heaps
of bread and butter. Taxed him what he
was mad ut, and no said the,, Grated
Yanks had stole his feather bed. ! told
him it was ag'in the Bible to fout. but
he didn't keer shucks. He was eatin
away when man steps in and says the
fout was ready to be fitten, and the
monstrously powerful gineral hurries
out and don't pay fur his breakfast.
"But told yo' to 60 arter him,
said the wife.
Eyes, Hammer, you did, and went
along, but jest then the fout begun.
Sakes alive, but never want to see an
other SIGH time!"
"What did you see?" I asked.
why, the awfullest, powerfullest
sights in the world, sab. They tore
down the hogpen, upset the hen roost,
wrecked the mewl shed and tramped
all my garden sass into the airth, and
il hadn't stood right thar with club
they'd hev stole all our soft soap and
hard cider"
"And is that all?'
Is that all? Why. what ar yo' look
in fur, stranger? Mebbe yo'd druther
sumbody else would tell yo' about this
fout-sumbody who wasn't yere."
Eyes, mebbe he'd druther, added
the wife as l started for the gate.
M Oman