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Show He Was Claiue. ! j Col. Robert Slribbling, of Jfarkhmit, ! Va., says: lu the battery that bore uij name in the lata war were governl rt'iinj eeutatives from a little sandy pine stunted stunt-ed att-tion in Fauquier county called i "Texas." I can't tell why the sec-' sec-' tion was named Texas, except on tha ground that its population was made np of pretty rough citizens. Tho Texas: people were a great nice of fighters, and tho code of morals that prevailed in othnr sections of the state did not obtain there to any remarkable extent Well, at the battle of M;ilvern Hill ray battery bat-tery was hotly engaged and my men and horses were dropping fast, lu order to keep tho men up to the sticking point I rode along tho.line to let them sue that I was taking un interest in the fight, when I came across one of these Texans lying on the ground with both of hit legs carried away. He called to mo with a feeble voice aa I reined up near him, and said: "Well, Capt. Bob, Tin doue for, but I can be of a little service to you yet You just bring one of those horses here and let me hold him, and let that other man go to the gun. I'll bo sure to hold him while I'm living, and when I'm dead you just tie the brute to my carcass." Now wasn't that an exhibition of nerva und gameness? I related this Btory once to old Dr. Payne, of Markham. "What did you say his name was?" queried the doctor. "William Prince," 1 replied, "Why, dod rot your skin!" he exclaimed, "don't you know that his father was tny brother Rice? Every man with Payna blood in him is as game as a pebble, sah, as game us a pebble." St Louis Olobe-Democrat |