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“ Pretty young then, I suppose?"— “ Yah, swan.sig apout; und der
pcebles
V ot I goes to for to ask for some vork, dey baft: none for to geei;
Efcry von laughs; but I holds my head ope shust so high as der
steeples;
Only dot var conics along, or I should have die, I belief."

“ Ever get wounded? I notice you walk rathe:- lame and unsteady.
Pshaw! got a wooden leg, eh P What battle?1’ “ A t L ookout!”
<r Don’t say!
1 was there too— wait a minute—-why your glass is empty already.
Have another. There! tell me how ’twas von got wounded that day,"

V d i, vc charge ope dcr side of dcr mountain— der sky vos all smoky
and h azy;
i/e fight all day long in der clouds, but I nefer get hit until night—
Lint— I don't care to say mooch apout it. Der boys cad me foolish
and crazy,
Und der doctor that cut ofe my leg, he say, ' G oot'— dot it serf me
shust right.

“ But I dinks 1 yood do dot thing over again, shust der same, <tnc no
matter
Vot any man say," “ Well, let’s hear ii—-you needn’t mind talking
to me,
l1’or 1 w;is these, too, as I teli you— and oh ! how the bullets did patter
Around on that breastwork of boulders that sheltered our Tenth
Tennessee,1'

“ So ? Dot vos a Tennessee regiment charged upon ours in do efening,
Shust before dark; und dey yell as dey charge, mid ve geei a hurraii;
Der roar of dcr guns, it vos orfnl,” “A h ! yes, !. remember, 'twas
deafening.
The hottest musketry firing that ever our regiment saw.1'