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Show LOOKED A LITTLE UNSTABLE Body Servant of Gen. Mahone Doubtful Doubt-ful of the Qualities of His Master's "Props." Gen. Adalbert R. Buffington, at a dinner in Madison, N. J., told a number num-ber of civil war stories. "Gen. Mahone," he said, "was very thin. One cold and windy December morning in '64 he was taking a nap in his tent when his old colored servant, 'Uncle Davy,' tiptoed in, and, stumbling stum-bling in the darkness, knocked down the general's folding cot and spilled him out on the frozen ground. "Gen. Mahone jumped up furiously, seized a scabbard and made for Davy. Davy ran. The general gave chase. "Uncle Davy tore up hill and down dale till he was pretty well out of breath; then he looked back over his shoulder at his master, who bounded after him on slender limbs, blue and thin, his long, while night shirt fluttering flut-tering in the chill morning. " 'Fo' de lan's sake, Mars' William,' the exhausted Davy yelled, desperately, desperate-ly, 'yo' hain't trustin' yo'se'f in dis wind on dem legs, is you?'" |