The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-17

his candid smile, together with his
 gave earnest of that perennial youthful HN2ASSE which parts reluctantly with it's K~zAE first A chestnut- blond whose hair H@A@ curled, delici3usly at the temples, he was HS tint dark to bring Y <YSSS III ticeably the frank blue of his eyes A
 type familiar enough among Franco
 effeuinate delicacy of line and tint is esd in his o butfonhoie 5Ra' the fragment of red ribbon which procaims while seem ing to conceal the coveted prize dear to both genius and vaor in France-the Cross of the Legion ~To all who seek foreign service our war depart ment gives eonge that learn in the school of Thank you for the con1prnent9 replied I, laugh ing for at this stage of the war our victories were sI r1ean's continued he, ,"one fights for La Belle for glory and experience My own country is at peace; but here one grows veteran1in seven days. nuTed. discontentedly. s thinking Of the Peninsula Yes, answered. he, serenely "to one who studies the game of there is lesson in every disaster We gather experience as the gambler gathers gold. ~oI, thati No Europesn easuist S can make out Four cause You do not fight to free the slave Your they say. L'Amerique is the foe of L'Angleterre Heini Your rihemen are adorable; but your cavalry men do not know yet how to ride. De retour, he se F5y E5yas fSsrTBRfIn is BRfI himself as Minnie bah The eonversation, ceased; yet he rode on singing talk continued to increase Our troops, having
 @ Ene d py eeep 2 ana t olie t roTG, nov all the death-traps of that fatal field Antietam. To describe the of horror that ensued is not within the scope of this sketch suffice it that the brigade after brigade, against that ipregnable posi- ion. only to be hurled back with depleted ranks, almost without officers; for at the short range af- torded, these were an easy mark panic seemed the Frenchman and myself, to ride up and find an opening in some dense undergrowth which with a opening through wcR the troops coS be daMn asT1 to vantage-ground commanding sunken road.
 AL --I- ; + ,,a oeed o. oonTeesiog if t qTTs. I d dilating of the nostri1 which told how serious that reckless youth regarded the situation We both 5ed os B But few Sounds ads of the spot espied, lying ledge of rock short looking us along their rife barrels It was too s tG bss spP or sHen s aF t y s1 r at the fence, which he took at flying 1eap carrying bodiment of chiva1rous grace Some such impression may have struck the sharpshooters, who for sone like cheer as horse and rider alighted almost in their midst. But the next moment game an explo,, the earth The air was darSened by confused mass horses had falen by fragments the she'll and were eonfusedIy rolling with their riders in chaos of dead leaves and torn-up earth An occasional glimpse of what seemed a revolving sky, and an ap- pang sickness of dizzy trance, and darkness closed It was afternoon avvole from what seemed a adjusting the pillows with gentleness that comes only with trained deness rendered easy by strength and veteran of the Crimea Where are we, DaddFs asked in voice whose weakness surprised me-
 Near Antetans sir-in Maryland" the reply
 How long have we been heTe?"
 October"
 I sank back in amazement Three weeks of fever plotted, blankl tDadd. did we lick them?"
 Yes sir, in the long The Grand Arnys gone for General McCleIlans a1ivin' the Lee mansion first cousin of Robert Lee, sir. An the Generals sent for Is wife and baby n mother-in-1aw, and is ridin' round in harnbulance drawn by eight mules wit5 the American eric flag stuck at ssch ear
 ~'Ycu1l see i'm in the garden below"
 Cary me to the window
 transferred to the window, where ] knelt or walking softly the grass-p1ot beyond the boz border tall figure denoting supp1eness rather thar strength walk like an Indians Altogether, sinister suggestion
 Not he surely-not Le 'Capitaine Gu1laumep' exclaimed
 Dadd looked out himself "Oh mo- sir; that's Lieu tenant Pierson, chief of scouts-but I'd like te know what brings i'm to these parts An there's the Captain" And, following the eye of thu garruous- old steward, my gallant friend limp ing painfully with the aid of pair of crutches 4 young woman walked him, that at first 1t seemed though he leaned upon her for support but the way the wounded piled his crutches de 1lied this iraDression The man designated as scou keeniy watching the couple, although they wer evidently obvious of his presence; and he walked he managed to keep small ornamental fir tree be tween himself and the unconscious objects of hi scrutiny.
 Notice is walk-just that of an Indian trackin his foe," erowled old Dada "I don't like a walk with their toes turned in, except after tn fashion of the cavalry An distrust them lurkin priec-eared chaps"
 his national Prejudices its only a Frenchman he tracking now"
 IFS brave lad, wherever e comes from" ejacu lated the hospital steward with fervor. "The nigh hanbu1ance found you both e made take yo in place 'imse1f seein there was no room but fo sNevzre mind me lheTe Dada executed travest