News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-06

tainly a thousand-and he talked and
acted like a general instead of mere
sergeant"
"When? Where? How do you knowY
asked the colonel, with a quizzical
smile apparently at Brainard's assum
ing to know how a general would act.
''This afternoon. Way off to the
right of the road our regiment took
We saw him. We were in the fight
with him and were proud of it and OF
him"
"Bless me! l heard such wild stories
Of that skirmish that I've already ask.
ed your captain for written report
Tell me all about it."
Brainard told him without a word of
eXaggeration, yet as he talked the colo
mel arose and paced his tent like an eX
| cited lion in a cage. He clinched his
hands, and his eyes flashed, and he
sputtered small groups Of Scriptural
words that were not prayers. Brain
ard stopped abruptly after telling how
Mick felled the skirmishers' captain.
"The tigerv exclaimed the colonel.
81 wish there were more of his kind in
| the regiment"
"But isn't he a man, too?' asked
Brainard. "And shouldn't he be re.
warded"-
at shan't be my fault if he isn't a
man from this day FORTH" interrupted
the colonel Come with me. sup
pose he is in the hospital"
co. dead" | suggested.
"Nonsensew growled the colonel
Gloss of a fore paw never kills tiger.
| Lieutenant Baslow of our regiment has
shot them In India. He was in the
British service and has told me all
about it,"
Instead of going direct to the hos
pital the colonel stopped at a captains
tent and asked for one of the occu
| pants jackets-an old one. The cap
| tain looked surprised, but compiled
with the request. The colonel strode
rapidly to the hospital tents, followed
by Brainard and me. Entering the
surgical ward, he asked:
SIS McTwyny here?"
"Frisint, sorr," came from a red face
On cot, and a big freckled hand came
| to the side of the face in the position OF
salute.
I'm sorry to hear of your loss" said
the colonel, land I've brought you the
| best consolation could think of. This
is the jacket you shall wear when you
| get up again, Captain McTwyny."
"Whooroow exclaimed Mick. He
closed his eyes an instant then opened
them and said, CAV Norah cud only SEE
| it,
"She shall see it, with you inside OF
it, as soon as you're fit to go north OF
leave of absence. Is there anything
else l can do for you"
Mick pushed aside his sheet, display.
ed his severed arm lying on his breast
and sad
Don't let 'em throw this away"
''He knocked me down for trying tC
take it from him." whispered the
nurse, "but of course a thing Of that
kind can't be kept"
For a moment the colonel seemed tc
be choking. When he recovered, he
said;
LET me take 1t. I'll have it buried
with the honors of war. The company
you're to command, captain. shall fire
salute over it."
"Oi thank yeZ very koindly, sorr, fol
that an that ilse we've done, but how
about thin two little dhivils forninst
We? In the foight wild the fince rails
glory be to the poikes av auld OirelanC
they were wort more than all the ris
av the platoon put together. Little
Brainard, ah, that shillelah twistel
he'd make! An, as for Frost, he saved
me own loife two or three tonnes il
succession"
"Goodw exclaimed the colonel. "They
shall be taken care of. Now keep al
quiet as you can, captain. so as to ge
we'll auckland see Norah. Nurse
hang this jacket at the foot of his co
in some way so he can always see The
shoulder straps when his eyes are
open. Come along, men-I beg you
pardon-gentlemen."
"Now," said the colonel, "as you tive
have declined q hadn't the commits
sions granted, as you think, under {
misrepresentation and through thu
Imagination of a young woman, shall
at once recommend you for commits
sions in your own old regiment. ant
you may be sure that you'll get them
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