Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-18

| come back. but he never halted
There were four or five of the enemy
| on that post and they opened on the
boy as soon as he started. Had he
stood still for three seconds he would
| have been a target, but he did not
stand still. With head down and his
revolver swinging. he went over that
| old field like deer and the bullets
fired at him sang all around us. You
won't hardly believe what I'm going to
| tell you, but it's a matter of record
| Just the same. His bold dash at the
plcket-post made the rebels believe
that he had force behind him. and he
captured one man and drove the others
helter-skelter. The posts to right and
left began firing, and there was an
alarm for three miles along the front.
In the midst of ii, and while we stood
on the log with our mouths agape.
Our correspondent returned with
his prisoner. His face was flushed
his eyes like diamonds, and as he
reached us he laughed nervously and
said
Il told you I would get over it, and
now l think have"
Say, now, but durn my hide"
gasped our chief. as he held out his
hand, you are the Teller I've been
calm Sissy,
Yes"
And I've talked about nursing bot.
tie and soothin' syrup and trundle
beds a dozen times over"
But that's all right"
NO, cuss me if it is. Bows. off With
your hats. Now, then, three cheers
Now then, I'm sayin' as | take hack
all we said about the Sissy business
ana the soldier who looks cross-eved
at TINS boy from this time on has pot
to lick me-" nus SUI
mat was Our Correspondent han.
tlsm, and though he was too modes
TO furnish the details to his naners
Ihey ala not go unpublished tn
rank and file became friends ar onao
and the officers who had almost 10
hored his presence were glad of H.
chance to give him a good word |
month later he rode into camn Win
us: On the previous night our cbief
fire. "' 'ne camp
LOOK here, now, but don't Won or
pohy over what's comm off tomorro,.
~ IL De dlnerent from what's hannonod
puI you II be ready for it. rye lima,
auopIeu you, | have, and I shonId 10
sorTy II there was any fuke"
~ l thlnk | can go through with II
al right answered the bow. II
nope you can. You see we orc
sun 10 Jump on to General Lee Win
over a hundred thousand men In I1Sm
nsnt pack like hell. When tho 80 V -
anu anu muskets git to roarin', yon'n t Iils
1nG Day or Judgment has come NJ
VIII, VIII yen and shout and cheer-meonr
MI MN scream and Shrek and fail daod
Inc alrth will tremble and rise ~, ueau'
now and then you'll feel the bo W h, anu
o 81 me man next to you splash Y voI,n
cheek' Jest grit your teeth ana t Sour
ON, Git down among the bows " raitE
"a gun and help 'em stop a cb $50 with
ho ' hei, make rush, go with 'em % Ttiu
&c teIi ana repeat, but if Won come ~ o,,I II
oi IL you'll have seen sutbin, 70 T,l gu, OUT
"U "Ht.lor the next ten wears - W write
l.. our Correspondent" took hi.
q o SnI 3attie next morning and If pi M,oe
. O'Clock at night before we e" soI IT. was
asaln' Then he was writins pay" Nv MIN
count by the light of a cas- cars sls ac.
WAS WAS riding as orderly for Generai are -
T TTea when we came upon tba a. IRA IRA
mere mere We're dead and wonndo tne boy
nuhured about him, and sitt iu oy the