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fit second hand, she wont to headquarters: she posk’d hoi'selfi amons a rrowd of waiting oneS in the Qrneral’s office. The old• * |man wijs ah«4orlxvl in business, an I working away like a fijhnm engine. ‘File alter file of uien pKsrdj before him, and he shot liis decisions at them in^skurp. curt sentences and they moved on. Finally, a tall, handsome man Approached, and handed in' mSllV,to!;c\Iliia documents for eral rah his ryeexamination. The Gen-down the pages, and a thundeij clou 1 settled portentubusly upon his countenance.! He threw down theI * * Ipapers land shco't hi9 fist fiercely in the gentleman’s face rind said :“You nro come to me with this! You, you sneaking hojnnd of a deserter! JW bring a paper hervj signed by the President of the Unitor! States, setting forth that ■when you desertorjl from the regular army to go apd fight four years against your country, there weto four months' pay coming tlt;» you frgm tho government you so out rage'll, and ordering mo to pay to vou those arrearages’] *•lt;! sec you and ‘thesr: W' a:thfolot. csjm: ot : hi; JuorI alPresident a hand; ed million'miles in Achottest hole in-•» -, - a lt;umangy,; lying, tijaitorous .son of a horso-tbicf, aii;l the* I \ ronldn’t do it! Y*mose the ranch *‘\I • * •And ithc iivourr of of Union dead went back anjd reported. Sho said no, the Gen-: he cli;111t T!lcrai didn’t sw« vr.nc*ctly-f-an I yet the word? h,* s!iit*-that is be didn’t swo;ir lidn’t exactly pray: but 1 were the n. xt most toothing worus to a beautiful prayer she ‘enjrWwd ,m all her lif3 *I stiif
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Wellsville Free Press
Wellsville, New York, US
Wed, Mar 18, 1868
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