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Show i ; Wounded at Gettysburg. Washington Star. He was plainly a veteran, and he looked with interest several times at a mail who held his handkerchief to the side of his face. After a while he said: "Toothache, mister?" "No; w-ounded." "Where'd it happen?" "Gettysburg." "You don't say so! Keeps coming open, does it, cap'n?" "Yes. It hasn't shown any sign of healing heal-ing yet" "You don't say so! Bullet, wasn't it, major?" No; cut." "That's bad. I tell you, colonel, those sabres leave a mighty nasty place nine times out of ten." "I s'pose you got your pension for that i .1 ; I . t .... 1 long ago, didn't you, general?" "No." "You ought to have a pension sure." "Well," replied the man with the handkerchief, hand-kerchief, "I haven't had time to apply for it yet You see I only got this wound yesterday, yester-day, when I happened to be in Gettysburg on business aud had a barber shave me in a hurry." |