Show Two Years Yer Bringing the Wood Denver Times While General Generl Chaffee Charree Chafee was wa stationed in m Arizona Arona in 10 1371 he be passed one winter in inthe inthe inthe the field feld The weather was bad bad One particularly wet and miserable day Chaffee Chaffee Chaffee fee had ha to spend sped In his Sibley tent writes a correspondent corre from hoeni The fire In the te little conical sheet iron Ir n stove aim sim simply ply pl burn bur The contain captain sum summoned summoned summoned his do robber as the soldiers term an officers personal attendant Bring Brn some dry wood he commanded The Soldier an a Irish veteran known kown to history only as Muldoon stood at Sat at attention attention tenton and replied Captain there dont be anny any I L know kow better beter the officer Get Cot out of here and dont come back bach without dry d wood wod Muldoon saluted and ad I through the mud on his homeless quest auest Wood assuredly must must have been hard har to find for lie he failed aBed w return that thai day or that year yea and ad was wa finally dropped deserter as a a Two years later Chaffee promoted to tobe tobe tobe E be major maior maor was In command of ot Fort Mc McDowell Dowell Dowel on the lower Verde Ver e 10 miles mile mies south of the point where Muldoon Muldoon had nad disappeared in I the te rain rn One hot summer ni n ht bt the major was wa sitting on the ve ye rands raad of his hi house house in en enjoyment enjoyment enjoyment of the moonlight and his clear cicar cla when from around the te corner of the build buildIng buld lag Ing Ig came a figure staggering under the te i weight of an immense armful of mesquite that had plainly come from the house household household hold woodpile wo The figure came ce around aund to the te porch steps and halted The right t h hd hand ji went stiffly to the te brim of a bat battered battered civilian hat bat and a voice In the i richest brogue announced Captin Ive rye i ii brought ye yo th Ui to wood wood Officers said that Muldoon richly de tie deserved deserved served five years In Alcatraz military militar prison but the humor of the te affair so at struck the and ad the general genera generl I commanding that all aU he got was wa six si months mont at post fatigue f and the guard guardhouse guardhouse ard house with a bobtailed discharge at atthe al altie tie the end cud of the te time Muldoon still lives in Arizona and his happiest moments moment are those Chaffee when he lie is telling of scouting with wih |