Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-18

hlllen OF WOur0c1 rlSnt AROUND me.
The major of our battalion called for
two men to go forward and locate the
enemy, so | and another man called Bolts
jumped up and ran forward to where we
could see the Spaniards on the hill.
IT seemed certain death to get up, the
bullets were flying 50 thick. but we got
back all right and reported. Bolts was
afterward shot through the leg
/ have lost everything except the clothes
have on. Your loving son,
JACK HAWTHORNE
Company A, list New York Volunteers
But no, Jack Hawthorne had not lost
mis- most precious possession of all the
heroic blood that courses in his veins
Heroic blood it was that prompted both
him and private Bolts at the same in
slant to jump up and rush forward with
such alacrity in the face of almost SER
tain death.
All the world knows the name of this
young follows grandfather Nathaniel
Hawthorne, author of the Scarlet Let
ter" ard The Marble Faun." MASTER
pieces of English literature, but who has
heard of Bolts. the unromantic cognomen
os the youngsters equally brave COM
panion? What forcfathers have handed
down to him the blood from which heroes
are made?
HEROISM IN THE BLOOD.
Blood will tell" is an axiom that in
all the ages has never been gainsaid.
Every man who does "A brave, heroic act
carries within his veins quality of
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