El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-04
Little BObbie and His Pa
BObbie RecOunts the visit OF n Young
West Point Graduate With Pa
and Pas War stories.
William r KFrk-
BY William F. KIrk-

T1HARE was a young man calm to
our house the other mite witch
has Jest graduated from West
Point. He was a nice young man. He
was as strate as a arrow < his clothes
III him fine He is a friend of mas
unkel wich also went to West Point
& was shot in the back yeers ago in
a injun campain Ma never likes TO
talk much about her unkel, bekaus pa
Is all the time wanting to know how
IL was that he got shot in the back.
The na1m Of the yung man was CAL
braith Denton His naim was like the
Mains of the army Ossifers in plays &
stories q he was vary handsUm. The
only thing / dident like about him was
that he was all the time Dragging. He
Is the only West Point man L ever
saw that Dragged. MOast of them
knows better Wen they git thru school.
haven't the faintest ldee ware they
VIII send me, he toad pa & ma. NY
only wish IS to be sent to some post
ware thare IS plenty of action & dan
ger. Danger is my middel naim, he
sed- The direst peril in the world is
like that much custard pie to me.
think grow taller & broader on q
diet of danger, he sed. DOant YOU feel
that way2 he asked pa
Pm Is Modest.
7 think pa was going to say yes,
but he saw ma grinning al him & he
sed we'll to tell you the truth, I am
] was wen / was a yung man. In those
days, pa sed, cud put my hand in a
mad dogs mouth with a smile or face
the charge of a en-raged bull without
batting a eye, but my advanced yeers
have sObered me down a bit & made
me think Of other & crater things than
fiteing.
Well, sed the yung man to pa, I do
not imagine that I shall grow less fer
less with the added yeers. In fack, I
beeleeve chat when I am an old man
VIII be eeven mOar dauntless than I
am now, & Wen the grim reaper Gums
he viii find me in the hour Of deth
as I ever was in life. unafraid.
That is a fine way to be, said pa.
Y on VIII find, sed pa, wen you go 70
the front. many things in acktual war
rare to try yure outrage sOrely. In
the dark days of the rebelyun. pa sed.
the days that I bred to recall TO any
grate extent eeven now, I went thru
hardShips & faced dangers that wud
have killed any ordinary man or made
him crazy. / wonder now & then. sed
pa, that that terribuI war dident mai1
me RELY insane. Doant you, wife,
on. suppose so, Sed ma Sumtimes l
/ think you are lttel dippy at that [
Ma Gives Him Away.
Pa got kind of red in the face but /
he kept on talking, My boy he sed, /
to Mister Denton. wen you have gone !
thru a baptism Of fire such as me & (
my braiv comrades went thru at Mis- Z
summary Ridge or in the battel Of the ]
Wilderness. or at Shiloh or ChauceI- |
louisville, pa sed, you viii show then /
how RELY braiv you are. One mite 7 1
was surrounded by a whole company
Of rebel cavalry, pa sed. I newer lost /
my superb nerve Taking advantage of ]
a gray mist that hung Oaver a gray 7
landscape, L mingled freely with the /
gray clad troops & thus made my es- I
cape.
I suppOas yUre face was gray with 4
feer. sed ma.
Mister Denton believed pa, until ma /
sed; Lissen. Galbraith; this deer nus /
band of mine was never in a war ex-
cep with me