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Updated: May 24, 2025
"'It might be Gener'l Jackson, I says. 'But it ain't. It's Abe Wackernagel, I says. You see," he explained, "she ast me what MIGHT my name be. See? and I says 'It might be Jackson' MIGHT be, you know, because she put it that way, what might it be. 'But it ain't, I says. 'It's Wackernagel." Mr. and Mrs.
The General made a deprecatory gesture, and was on the point of saying something, when the man of the house spoke up. "Ef you're Gener'l Forrest," he said, "you'll be more than pleased to know that the Yankees ain't never took time for to cook supper. After they hit the furder bank they jest kep' on a-humpin', an' I don't blame 'em myself, bekaze 'twuz the only way wet men could keep warm."
"I went to the Gener'l," she said, "an' I said to the man behin' the counter, 'Gimme two ha'penny postcards an' a penny stamp an' change for a shillin', if you please! and I hadn't the words out of my mouth 'til a man in a green uniform ... one of them Sinn Feiners ... come up to me, an' pointed a gun at me, an' toul' me to go home.
Wackernagel's whole face twinkled with amusement, and his shoulders shook with laughter as he contemplated the joke he had perpetrated "I says, 'Well, it MIGHT be Gener'l Jackson'" laughter again choked his utterance, and the stout form of Mrs. Wackernagel also was convulsed with amusement, while Amanda and Rebecca giggled appreciatively. Tillie and the doctor alone remained unaffected.
"I 'lowed to the Gener'l that he had oughter git a lock and key fer this here flowered silk dress in the glass case on the wall dat de ole Mis' wore at the ball where she met up with Mas' Carruthers, but they do say that she comes back and walks as a ha'nt all dressed in it and these here slippers and stockings and folderols in the carved box on the table here under her picture.
"I went in to the Gener'l," she said, "an' I said to the man behin' the counter, 'Gimme two ha'penny postcards...." Henry made his way out of the group of listeners, and walked down the street towards the General Post Office. "It's absurd," he said. "Ridiculous! A rebellion!" But something was toward.
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