Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-22
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. A Story For Memorial Day
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grave. said civil war veteran on
Memorial day when half dozen gray
boards were decorating the graves OF
their fallen comrades. Jim and | en-
listed On the same day and went
through the fracas in the same reSi
meht Jim WIS Il good soldier. a good
fellow aud pet OF the petticoatS. lie
was captured ut the battle of Chicka.
m:psa and taken into Georgia. where
he was kept until. We advanced with
Sherman's army to Atlanta. About
the time we We're passing his way ne
managed to escape aud Joined us.
remember well when he came into
camp dressed up fit to kill
Hello. Jim said. i thought you
was dead .... .- r
/" No: got taken in by the Johnnies.
III tell you how it was, said he, aud
he did -. .: ..:-...-
When he got away. which he did by
burrowin under a wall. lie was Il
mighty sick Iookin' chap. His clothes
waS tattered and torn. and good deal
of. the dirt that bed crlwled through
was stickin' to i'm He was covered
with lice. and his hair hadn't been
comted since he was captured. In the
m0rnin he found himself in wood
along one side o. which wsis Il wall and
on the other side Of the wall WAS Il
plantation. or. rather. the garden ad-
joinin' the plantation house. Jim was
so hungry that he was ready TO risk
most anything to get his teeth OH a
hunk o. corn pone or sonerfn like
that. SO he jumped the wall and was
maxim, across the garden for the mig
ger quarters when a side door Of the
house opened and young girl and a
officer stepped out. Jim
darted up a tree which he happened
to be near. ID -. a..
The couple came saunterin' along.
the man talkip' for all he was wo'th
about somepin. the girl ;lstenIhs. When
they get under the tree where Jim was
hidin' they sat down on a bench.
The Teller was maxim love to the girl
on the g:lIlop He said he'd ridden
over from camp to ask her to marry
him for the last time. for General Sher
man WAS comm and his command had
been ordered eastward to more fa-
vor,lble point to make stand She
said before she'd marry II Confederate
she'd take up with The worst looliin
Yank in the Federal army.
Jim felt very slick ut this. consid
erin that SO far as clothes. dirt, yer
min and general appearance Went he
would make q good candidate for the
girls preference. But what. pleased
him especially just then WAS tindin
put that he'd struck the home Of Union
synipathizers. What the girl said made
the Confederate mad. and he Went ulf
IN Il huff. III. ~. =. -
THE girl sat where she was. pokin
the dirt with her parasoi. evidently
feelin' sort o. stirred up over the mat
ter. Jim was afraid to let her know
be was ,ur in the tree above her for
fear he'd shock her. so he concluded
he'd wait till she'd gone back to The
house before he applied for food and
shelter. But bad luck would have it.
4 bird settled on one of the branches
md began to twitter and chirp Jim
wanted to ring the little things neck.
The bird kept ON twitterin'. and pres
entity the girl looked up. When she
saw Jim she gave shrek and would
have run into the house if she hadn't
1een paralyzed with fear. Jim dropped
Town in front OF her. She gave him
,ne look and went into d dead faint
lin couldn't blame her. for he was the
neasliest lookin' cub in Georgia.
when she came to herself she
'ound Jim on his knees before her
ookin' like a scarecrow. and she faint /
d again. When she got over that she
,egan to realize that the scarecrow
hadn't hurt her. and she got used to
ookin' at him.
You ought not to be so shocked at
ne SEEM you told the gentleman that
,efore you'd marry a Confederate
.ou'd take up with the worst lookin'
tank in the Federal army
Jim had n funny way with him.
nd when he said this the girl couldn't
lelp laughin' She asked him where
le had come from. and Jim told her
II about himself. Then she took him
o the house. but she must have been
till uncertain about him, for she wait
d for him to go fust. Jim was mighty
'olite about it. for his shirt tail was
angin' out of the seat OF his bfitches-
hat is. the place where the seat ought
o have been. But the girl xoh!dn't
i've in. and Jim had to go fust. walk
u as if he knew what he was show
D., and every now and then he heard
giggle. ."...
"Jlm was given a bath. fine tooth |
omb. suit of the girls brothers |
lothes and a bang up meal When |
e came downstairs all done up fine !
be girl looked at him with her eyes |
ride open and asked him if he was
ure he was the scarecrow that had |
ropped down before her in the gar
ipo Tin, soid ho didn't think no