Show THE COLONELS STORY how jim adkins went to M or r got hurled and WM was resurrected I 1 talking about war times said tho the old colonel did any of yon you overbear over hoar tho the story of jim adkins N io 0 I 1 I 1 well I 1 in surprised everybody every body in tho the settlement knew it jim was a no count sort of a fellow and the old man was anxious to get rid of him so when the war broke out and they were look lodl ing around for men the old man gave him away I 1 I 1 gave him away I 1 aea ea jim was la in the hayloft and they were about to leaie lean e without him when hen the old man winked and pointed to the barn bam that was enough and they got him and marched him to the front I 1 the old man was sorry after jim was gone and his conscience hurt him bad but he hoped for the tile best until one day bo he got a message that told him jim had bad been killed and buried on the battlefield then he packed his grip and started right off to bring jim a body home if possible for the grief stricken mother would have nothing else and made life miserable for him with her reproaches ho he went to N irginia and was nas there informed that it would be impossible to I 1 remove the body so he lie stood over the spot where it was burled buried and wept tor for three days then he w ent sadly home and lo 10 and behold the first man he met aa as he be neared his gate gato was jim safe do sound end tight right eido side up with care carel I 1 it was some timo time before the old man could say a word but when he lie found it was really jim in flesh and blood that they had find got jim mixed up with some other adkins and he haan t been ben killed at all the ol 01 oil I 1 man was hot bot I 1 lie ho slowly divested himself of his coat then rolled up bis his sleeves and made for him I 1 it was the liveliest scrap yon you ever saw sak the old man on top and the two of em wallowing in tho the dust I 1 it took the old lady and the three girla girls and two stout darkies to pull tho the old nan man off I 1 he ile never did explain why he did it and jun jim didn dian t ask any questions bat but the next morning he told his mother that while his furlough wan t out still he knew know his country needed him and be he couldn coulden t stand to stay at home nn un lor ler those circumstances BO so be he left hia his blessing for the old man and took the first tram train tor for the front I 1 atlanta con ution |