Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-11-09

ments. Eudie cut of her long hair that
reached nearly to her ankles and fixed
It up as a wig for Johnny. They had
lust f~inished-Eudie In Johnny's trou-
sers and Johnny in her dress, with her
hair coiled up on the top of his head
when they met some Confederate cav
alrymen coming from the opposite d.
rection. The general Of another part
of the Confederate army had received
O telegram from General Gobble to
head off a young farmers boy and
girl and hold on to the boy. The
troopers took Eudie, whom they sup
posed to be the boy, and let Johnny
go where he liked.
"Eudie was confronted by the man
who had recognized Johnny. OF course
he said she wasn't the n he meant,
but, having on Johnny's clothes, looked
suspicious. Besides, as soon as they
suspected Johnny was a spy they
searched the oom In which he had
slept and found the papers he had left
there. They contained mofnsasn
about the Confederate army.
$50 Eudie was brought before a lot
of officers and tried. They didn't get
together to find out whether she was
q spy or not, but to hang her, accord
ing to army law, which, ! fancy, is
pretty poor law, but very effective
with guilty persons. They fixed it so
that they could hang her according to
orders, and, since they didn't like to
waste any time in carrying them out,
sha was to be hanged at 10 o'clock
the next day"
"Oh. my, grandpa!" exclaimed Alice.
Wasn't that awful?'
at seems so, but 1t really wasn't.
Eudie could get off by telling them
she wasn't a boy at all, but she
wouldn't do it till the last moment,
because she wanted to give Johnny
all the time she possibly could to get
away But she put off letting them
know she was a girl till she brought
upon herself all the danger OF being
a spy. She let them put the rope
around her neck before she said a
word about 1t. Then they wouldn't
believe her.
Don't hang me- she said. I'm no
spy. I'm not even a boy. I'm a girl
1.-THE hanging was under the direc-
ton of the provost marshal, who said:
I know what you're after. You want
to gain a little time till we can in
vestigateT'
""That won't do, major interposed
the officer of the day, who was pres
ent. I've been suspicious Of this case
all along. l think we'd better send
her down to the hospital tent, where
there are a couple of women nurses,
and find out about the matter
1.-THE provost marshal gave in, and
they sent Eudie under guard to the
hospital tent. When they learned
that she was really q girl they asked
her what she meant by masquerading
as a boy, but she wouldn't tell them,
fearing that Johnny hadn't got beyond
the Confederate lines and she might
compromise him. So they let Eudie
go home.
Johnny ran away I'm the wood and
was awfully afraid that when the
C~onfederates found out they had
captured the wrong person and let
the right one go they would hunt all
over for him. He walked toward the
Federal lines for awhile, then, hearing
the sound Of horses hoofs, he crawled
into a hollow log. A company of
southern cavalry were going through
the wood, and some of them jumped
their horses over the very log that
Johnny was hidden in. He was sure
they were looking for him, but at
that time It was not known that
Eudie was not Johnny, and his fears
caused him to be mistaken. How
ever, they were just as dangerous to
him as If they had been looking for
him. because If they had found q girl
lettering in the wood they might have
suspected something.
Johnny didn't dare crawl out of the
log till 1t was dark. Then he looked
up at the north star and walked to-
ward it till he saw lights and knew
that they marked the Federal camps.
He must have gone through the Con-
federate pickets without knowing II,
for suddenly he heard a click and a
voice, who comes thereY He an
swered: Friend. Don't shoot. Take
me to General Bee
"The picket called a corporal, and
Johnny was taken to the generals
tent. The general was asleep, but
Johnny's information was so impor-
tant that an aid-de-camp walked him
up. and Johnny told him what he had
learned. And that's the end OF the
story"
what became of Johnny, grandpaT
asked little Billy.
"And what became Of Eudie?' asked
Alice.
"After the war Johnny went down
into Virginia and found Eudie' ana
they were married"
"where did they go to liver
'They came up here to Johnnys
home"
"Are they alive nowT
eyes"
"Are they any children's grandpa
and grandmaT"
yes"
"Whose"
yours"
.a0b nv p~oodnessr cried Alice.