Page 115 - Among the camps, or, Young people's stories of the war

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A L L Middleburgh knew next day how Nancy Pansy
had saved Harry Hunter, and it was still talking
about itj when it was one morning astonished by
the news that old Dr. Hunter had been arrested in the

night by the soldiers, who had cosne down from Washing­
ton, and had been carried off somewhere. There had not
been such excitement since the Middleburgh Artillery had
marched away to the war. The old doctor was sacred.
Why, to carry him off, and stop his old buggy rattling

about the streets, was, in Middleburgh's eyes, like stopping
the chariot: of the sun, or turning the stars out of their
courses. Why did they not arrest Nancy Pansy too ?
asked Middleburgh, Nancy Pansy cried all day, and many
times after, whenever she thought about it. She went to

Toni Adams's camp and begged him to bring her old doc-
tor back, and Tom Adams said as he had not ,had him
arrested he could not tell what he could do, but he would
do all he could. Then she wrote the old doctor a letter.

However, all Middlebuigh would not accept Tom Adams's
statement as Nancy Pansy did, and instead of holding him
as a favorite, it used to speak of him as u That Tom