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Updated: June 13, 2025
At Camp Leedy, where the Kansas volunteers mobilized on the old Fair Ground on the outskirts of Topeka, Thaine Aydelot sat under the shelter of his tent watching the water pouring down the canvas walls of other tents and overflowing the deep ruts that cut the grassy sod with long muddy gashes.
Todd Stewart made a brave struggle, but his slide on the muddy ground at Camp Leedy was his military undoing, and his discharge followed. "I'm going to start back to old Grass River tomorrow," he said to Thaine Aydelot, who had called to see him with face aglow. "I've made the best fight I could, but the doctor says the infantry needs two legs, and neither one wooden.
He invariably called them "the ladies," or more exactly, "the leedies"; and he hardly ever spoke to a "leedy" without a smirk and some faint attempt at a joke. One of the customs of the chapel was what were called Dorcas meetings. Once a month the wives and daughters drank tea with each other; the evening being ostensibly devoted to making clothes for the poor.
Listen to me, the both o' yez the leedy up stairs, the misthress iv this house, and widow of poor Charles Nutter Mrs.
He suns himself there after his breakfast when the day is suitable; and goes and pays a visit to the porter's lodge, where he pats the heads of the children, and talks to Mrs. Bolton about the thayatres and me daughter Leedy Mirabel. Mrs. Bolton was herself in the profession once, and danced at the Wells in early days as the thirteenth of Mr. Serle's forty pupils.
But O'Flaherty, after a short pause, seemed to forget Nutter, and returned to his celestial theme. 'Be the powers, Sir, that young leedy has the most beautiful dimple in her chin I ever set eyes on! 'Have you ever put a marrow fat pea in it, Sir? enquired Devereux, simply, with all the beautiful rashness of youth.
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