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After a pause he continued: "Last night about eleven o'clock, I went to the Soldiers' Home alone, riding Old Abe, as you call him; and when I arrived at the foot of the hill on the road leading to the entrance to the Home grounds, I was jogging along at a slow gait, immersed in deep thought, when suddenly I was aroused I may say the arousement lifted me out of my saddle as well as out of my wits by the report of a rifle, and seemingly the gunner was not fifty yards from where my contemplations ended and my accelerated transit began.
The whole room was turned to stone, motionless, expectant, awaiting the releasing moment of arousement all, that is, but the creeping sunshine, sliding nearer and nearer the crossed feet of the kitchen gods; and the hissing steam fire, warming, coddling the hearts of the gods. Sun at their feet, fire at their hearts, food before them, and mortals turned to stone!
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