The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-08

into the yard to eat grass the day that the Yankees came. Sister was on the
 veranda when she saw a soldier put a
 bridle on Dan, the horse, and she said to
 the man please do not take that horse he Is all the one we have on the
 place and he cannot be of much use tJ you in his present condition" He locked at sister and then at the horse. and without saying word. took the bri- dlc off and turned the horse loose. There must have been something good in that
 mans heart. Presently rougher looking man came, and bridled the horse. Sister asked him in the same polite way not to take the horse, and he said we have a use for him, and we can doctor his back as well as you can. So he loaded the poor little creature with sacks of plunder and tied them on his back with rope while another man held the horse. and led hun away. This grieved my little boys
 greatly for they dearly loved Dandy. as they called him.
 Just before the blue coats left Johnny, my little son, who is now a member of Congress, came in. looking quite pale,
 and much distressed, and said. Mama, they have killed every one of my geese. Look out, and you can see them, wonder they go. Grandma Brandon gave them
 to me for my very own. and now those
 bad men have killed every one of them.
 They were so pretty, they went to the
 creek every day, and washed themselves. and would come back quacking to tell me o'bout 1t. and now mama"
 looked out and sure enough they had killed his twenty geese, tied their feet together, swung them on their bayonets and were walking off with the long neck geese dangling behind them. l tried to comfort my poor little boy by telling him not to be troubled about his loss, be- cause he could buy as many goose eggs as he wanted, and let hens set on them. and hatch pretty little goslings: and he
 could feed bis litle goslings and have the pleasure of seeing them grow up into fine. fat geese and ganders. This seemed to reconcile him. until he thought about the chickens having been taken too. Then I told him that every body's crickens would not be stolen. and I felt sure that he could buy hens enough to hatch the goose eggs. As 1t happened. the looters did not get all of mothers chickens. as many of them had taken refuge under the houses, and in the blackberry patch. which was not easy of access to the spoilers.
 Aunt Graces way of saving a tub of pork was rather amusing. The day before the Yankees came to our place. father had a shoat killed and salted up for present use and the tub was placed in the back part of the large kitchen not far from where Nancy. the house servant, had put the dining room car pet. which mother had had taken up a short time previous
 Aunt Grace said: "When I see dem Yankees coming u2 dat hill so fast de first ting I thought about was dat tub of meat and went and tumbIed up dat carpet and piled it about over dat tub kind of care like and nobody would a thought about anything being under dat carpet It looked for the world jest like 1t was nothing but an old car pet throwed back dare outen de way. An when dem Yankees come in dare an tell me to git em some sacks, jest say to little Carrie. Yes. honey, you may come to Aunt Grace; an I jest take Ser away from Laura, and I set rite down on dat carpit. and dar stayed tell dey done gone outen dat kitchen. When da tell me to get up an hunt em some sacks, I tell em I can't do it. don't you see I has to take care of dis poor little orphan baby, dat is Twin here at her grandpa's. Her ma Is done dead. an don't beltebe dis child Is right nohow. don't you see her scramblin' to get away from me rite now? About dat time some of 'em find