Connecticut western news., 1903-04-23
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 This afternoon. Way of 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. heard such wild stories of that skirmish that I've already ask ed your captain for a written report. Tell me all about it."
 Brainard told him without n word of eXaggeration, yet as he talked the colo nel 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 ft1led the skirmishers' captain.
 "The tigerr exclaimed the colonel. "I 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"-
 Ut shan't be my fault if he isn't a man from this day forth" interrupted the colonel Come with me. l sup pose he is iD the hospital"
 "Or dead,' suggested.
 "Nonsenser growled the colonel. "Loss of a fore paw never kills a 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 captains tent and asked for one of the occu- pants jackets-an old one. The cap tain looked surprised, but complied with the request. The colonel strode rapidly to the hospital tents, followed by Brainard and me. Entering the surgical ward, he asked:
 'Is McTwyny hereY'
 'Prisint. sorr," came from a red face on cot, and 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, and I've brought you the best consolation could think of. This Is the jacket you shall wear when you get up again, Captain McTwyny."
 "Whooroor' exclaimed Mick. He closed his eyes an instant, then opened them and said, "Av Norah cud' only see itw
 ''She shall see 1t, with you inside of 1t, as soon as you're fit to go north on leave of absence. Is there anything else l can do for youT"
 Mick pushed aside his sheet, display ed his severed arm lying on his breast and said:
 Don't let 'em throw this away" He knocked me down for trying to take 1t from him." whispered the ] nurse, but of course a thing of that . kind can't be kept" For a moment the colonel seemed to be choking. When he recovered, he said:
 Let me take it. I'll have it buried with the honors of war. The company you're to command, captain, shall fire a salute over it."
 'Oi thank yez very koindly, SOFT. for that an fhat ilse ye've done. but how about thim two little dhivils forninst ye? In the foight wid the fince rails glory be to the poikes av auld 0ireland they were wort more than all the rist av the platoon put together. Little Brainard, ah, fhat a shillelah twister he'd makel An, as for Frost, he saved me own loife two or three toimes in succession"
 "Goodr' exclaimed the colonel. "They shall be taken care of. Now keep as quiet as you can, captain, so as to get well quick-and see Norah. Nurse, hang this jacket at the foot of his cot in some way so he can always see the shoulder straps when his eyes are open. Come along, men-I beg your pardon-gentlemen."
 "Now," said the colonel, "as you two have declined q hadn'D the commis- sions granted, as you think, under a misapprehension and through the imagination of a young woman, shall at once recommend you for commits sions in your own old regiment, and you may be sure that you'll get them.