The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-05

that that man has an hours extra drill,
Keep your hands up, You're like a lot
Of saiIormen, An I'll sit by and laugh
al you. Wow. wont l Taught"
The corporal grinned. but the recruit
looked piteGUS and SOIrOWful
"NUUG-WOuldnt you rather have
your legs" he asked, wOnderingly.
'o. 1 dunno, the crippled soldier re
piled. Il never had no trade nor eddi-
cation. Sposin' I'd kept my legs. I'd
never ave been uothin' but a big buck
private anyway. and died or been shot
in line of duty. Now I'm fixed for life
an TIL get around. never fret"
"It- $50" said the corporal rehec-
lively. An not bein' a responsible
charaktcr. We might have been bob
tailed and gone on the bum. having rs
you say no trade an too old to larn.
Yer- u LUCK. But l bet ye'd die. BY
rights. because the doctor said it. We
ought to have died"
The worst OF it," said the GONZALES
cent is The pain in my toes"
Your tncS' cried the recruit
They always feels it." said the cor
Q7-a- more or less. IL depends on
how thsr buried your legs. I'll look
There VAS old Mahoney, who went
o'ra5u-. and got smashed up by an
engine. with his leg cut off. He suffered
terrible from his toes. an his son had
lie ouryin Of the leg. It's buried
proper dad says ne. but the old man
luatr. it an got a friend to look j. up.
SIRE enough. the hoy had just put it in
.a- .Jr.. and the earth was pressing
..sa and heavy down on it. MahOney's
friend put ID in box where it had
.-. en- the pain left MahOncy. j
Knew. says he, tho boy hadn't buried
proper 10 hurt so.
The recruit laughed. but the cripple
SAID. auNuusly.
Look mine up. Corp. will you? I'm
".h7 mine amt put away right
'@e tough" said the corporal
--InC uu The subject of the soldiers
-.ra'F Most fellers would have died
S" '..-rS is mighty hard To kill.
---.I" IS Buck Bill. He's with the
"'.'E .serond now. I mind when we
w." .aus over his grave down on the
H'". said the recruit. Il thought
.t .a't Dee is with the Twenty-second
D'r-thevsn''
An 500 he is. I'll tell you how It
vas See. in them days. the boys was
-1.'HS hot times with the COmanches
ana the kt0was down in the old south
western frontier. Il Vas in them times
was enjoying myself like
.-A-' ~" fair, and all things was new
~ Ar an ] never thought but what
...' mp as major anyhow. Like
,.- more. You amt so old as me, but
hr.w how il is"
B.. loo q
f'o service stripes on his sleeve.
s.- recruit looked dreamiiy out Of the
gunner door of the hospital tent He
Very young. and-some day there
-.' .. d war worth calling a war.
.Hmr"i-n. lie had hopes.
Dbl" was AN bucks. Of COURSE" the
,-..... Went on but this Teller Bill
.. ....l PUCK Bill poor-purr-
foreign word. rookie
..--. .N.mple?' the recruit suggested
r-..... -... ] guess In matters OF the
..... states language | don't take no
..- mess from no one. but in foreign
-'" ---s rookie, Yea may know more n
49, h' was Buck Bill always. He had
.... most -Ntrorny bumps behind his
IS frennigis'-"
,-. Hl.4nologist?" the rookie meekly
...-.'H.t
OIL. INA. amt n foreign word" said the
S.- ''Ta. angTjly. It's good United
r... and IT goes. sec2 7 said a fren-
Tl am hat gicht2'
...-.. .'nFa.eScent nodded and the re
.-It humh'ed
Boa. .N n-r, irennigist felt OnCt OF Bills
=. aga draWed a paper Of il. Says
s., 'lI. SAYS he You're the most
p. -- bump of vitality I ever seed.
IN Them was the bumps behind
.-,..' i'-.. g ears he meant, see? Mine
an. d, -.'H''kable, but / guess yourn
ON. -. patient felt behind his ears and
..1ea his eyes wide.
c.,.. Eee.' he said, You're right,
I'd r. We got EN- big"
~. t.--'uSht So" said the corporal. ''or
rag.1o- never have pulled thltugh this
e.. Guess you'd give the yeller
rh "SeIt hot time to down you
ears recruit felt at the back of his
..TT with alarm.
fl -aney,' he said thoughtfully. that
tl- ' ,si ~ t pay me to have both legs
Rim Wen. sir. the corporal said. Buck
hard az az a thing it was the hardest Of
in ~, MIL de got cut UP by a cowboy
h. h- yenne and lived. In the hospital
d-l,,i.' ne out on a bitter cold night got
Sbpt caught cold, got eeriesipples-
W. rookie, that's United States,