The Grenada sentinel., 1899-11-18

AN TASTY HASH.
How tn" Writer and Dick Wood got Their
supper.

Uutl0g tno Waf-nOt Inc llttle CuOah
and PHILIPPINE skirmishes-bu during
the war between the States when
almost any private was better General
that Otis seem to be now-our Regi-
ment, the 18Th, Miss, Infantary. stop
ped for an hour ut Enterprise, Miss.
/ should say that we we're on a train
of rail road cars, having for our OBJ
jective point Tulahoma via Mobile and
Montgomery. We retraced our steps
after getting as far as Montgomery.
But to get back to what I started to
tell you, would state that Co. E. at
the time did not have all told, twenty
five dollars, and we were hungry for
'citizen grub"
Near the depot, at Enterprise, at the
the time, almost every shantv was a
''boarding house, c., the proprietors
sold pies and cakes, and for money
enough would set out a lot OF fried ba-
con, "tater pone' etc. Dick, The must
not see this article, be is Supervisor
now) and very soon found place at
which we were offered supoer for two
dollars. We told the people to set it
out, and to he quick about it or the
train might move out very soon. All
things being ready we took our seats
at the table, we'll knowing we did not
have as much as five cents in the world.
Now, as | had just such a case once,
while in company with Cal. Witty, OF
Winona, (he is now II Chancery Clerk
and as CAL finished eating first and
left me with the bag to hold, or, in
other words, to settle the bill, I took
ad dvantage of the lesson learned then
and took my seat next to the open door.
Now, to finish eating before Dick got
through, was the uppermost thought in
my mind. To do SO, as Dick was
grinding his incisors and grinding his
nolars together energetically, if not
savagely, thought maybe, it might
be Impossible, SO began to stuff fried
meat and sweet cakes, and now and
then. a wedge Of pie and wad Of
",ater-pone' into my breeches pockets.
I plainly saw that Dick was trying TO
beat me done, SO all at once pretend
ed to turn sick anu rose from the table
and seated myself in the door, with my
legs on the outside OF the ho,se and
. gagged few times and famed myself
with my cap, and grunted as If in great
pain. Thought, "Dick, old fellow, l
have got you where the wool is short
you will have to settle the BILL" But
I reckonded without my host,for before
you could say Jack Robinson!' Dick,
with "tuter pone" in one hand and
several pieces of fried bacon in the
other, arose from the table and jump.
ed over my head, out of the door, and
!. left me behind. If ever sick man
g OF out of II sort of horizontal crook
! into a perpendicular straight in the
fraction of a second, I did it, and was
soon racing over the oyster shells that
covered the yard, to beat any living
man. except Dick Wood, creased light
ing would not have caught him. Our
speed was accelerated by the people
setting big dog on US. The dog
barked fercely and ratified his chain
alarmingly, and being little behind
Dick I wondered where could ever
get a piece of cloth to patch the hind
part Of nv breeches. But we got away,
breeches and all for the dog was
chained to fence) and took our sup
leisurely. after getting "ut among
thousands OF other soldiers.
In a little while after the Incidents,
Just narrated. we met Tap Lott,
hunting for his supper. Tap had a
little money, 50 we got him TO 60 to
"our hotel" and get his supper and
learn what the people there thought
of Dick and myself. Tap called for his
supper and they told him he could get
it, but he must pay for it first. They
said, I'VE hope you will not do like
two men did . while ago. Two men
called for supper-one was a red-faced
man and appeared to be in mighty
good health; the other was a slim-faced,
crooked -nosed man, and wore a cap
They had not been eating very long
till Nancy Jane saw the slim-nosed
man poking rashers Of fried meat into
his pocket, which caused her to suspic.
ion that ali was not right. All at once
the Slim faced man appeared to turn
mighty sick; he actually gagged and
rushed to the door as II after fresh air,
and there be sat, tanning himself for u
minute or so, when, without any cere-
mony at all, The red-faced man arose
from the table with q lot of ''tater
poae" and fried meat In his hands and
jumped out Of the door, over the Slim
faced mans head-and the way they
made the oyster.shells in the yard
rattle was sin to David Crockett"
was helping my folks ''bank" sweet
potatoes a while ago. This brought
"tater pone" into my mind, and then
the Enterprise affair followed in the
line Of thought-and while resting I
write it out and will send it TO John
s. King and Lewis Majet, members Of
Co. f, 18th Miss. Infantry; and II any
newspaper wants the article the editor
can have it, but want him to send me
the number Of his paper into which he
puts :his hastily written article
l "JUDGE."
/ Tuka. Miss.. Nov. 8th. 1899,