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Maggie is daid an' I live wid my boy Walter an' his wife Lena. Dey is mighty good to me. I owns dis here house an' fo' acres but day live wid me an' I gits a Confed'rate pension of fo' dollars a month. Dat gives me my coffee an' 'bacco. I'se proud I'se a old sojer, I seed de men fall when dey was shot but I was not skeered. We et bread when we could git it an' if we couldn' git it we done widout.
Any luckless "sojer" who attempted to ascend the stairs usually returned in haste, to avoid the deluge of the filthy liquid. For convenience in issuing rations we were divided into messes of twenty, each mess electing a Sergeant as its head, and each floor electing a Sergeant-of-the-Floor, who drew rations and enforced what little discipline was observed.
An' these poor fellows in Washin'ton with their r-red eyes an' their tired backs will be an example to future ginerations, as Hogan says, iv how an American sojer can face his jooty whin he has to, an' how he can't whin he hasn't to." "Dewey ain't a sthrateejan?" inquired Mr. Hennessy. "No," said Mr. Dooley.
'I'm anxious f'r to ind this hor'ble war, he says, 'which has cost me manny a sleepy night, he says; 'but 'twud be a crime f'r to sind a sojer onprepared to battle, he says. 'Wait f'r th' pijammas, he says. 'Thin on to war, he says; 'an' let ye'er watchword be, "Raymimber ye'er manners," he says. "'They'se a man out here, says th' privit sicrity, 'that wants to see ye, he says.
'Ladies, says he, 'what can I do f'r ye? he says. 'Ye must save th' ar-rmy fr'm th' malt that biteth like a wasp an' stingeth like an adder, says they. 'Ye bet ye'er life I will, ladies, says th' Congressman with a slight hiccup. 'I will do as ye desire. A sojer that will dhrink beer is a disgrace to th' American jag, he says. 'We abolished public dhrinkin' in th' capitol, he says.
They were very plainly recent arrivals, for they still wore the characteristic clothes of the Emerald Isle, and after a little conversation with them Shorty produced his bottle and offered them a drink. The foreman had watched them suspiciously, and he came swaggering up, saying insolently: "'Ere, you bloomin' sojer, Hi want you to keep haway from my men, hand not be a-givin' them drink.
Purdie, noting his nephew's puzzled distress. 'Hush, Robert! Allow me. I must break it gently to the boy. What a cruel fiascio! what a vexatious disappintment! 'Whaur's Christina? Macgregor demanded. 'Courage, boy! said Aunt Purdie in lofty tones. 'Remember you are a sojer soldier of the Queen or rather, King! 'But
So I up an' tole dem, an' de sojer he says, 'Come, Jim, you've done quite enuff fur me, my boy. If you're in danger now, be off with you fast as you can, an' God reward you, for I never can, for all you've done for me. "'No, says Jim, 'Capen, ye needn't talk in dat way, for I'se not goin to budge widout you.
I went dere to carry some horses for my marster. It sho' was a fine lookin' engine. I was lookin' at it out of a upstairs window an' when it whistled I'd a-jumped out dat window if Captain Harper hadn' a-grabbed me. "I didn' see no fightin' in de war. When Gen'l Sherman come th'ough here, he come by Hillsboro. Marse Bob didn' go to de war. He warnt no sojer.
Now, we know that this boy rode straight from the tent of General Thomas hisself. He's a Union sojer, an' young as he is, he's an officer. He wouldn't be sent out by General Thomas hisself 'less it was on big business. He's got messages, dispatches of some kind that are worth a heap to somebody.
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