Show A Free and Easy Command Nov that Gen Brooke is retired It is interesting1 lo recall one of his favorite favor-ite stories which has to do with the ivil war Ho says that ho was absent ab-sent from him regiment for a few days nt Washington toward hue end of that struggle and that t uuon returning somewhat unexpectedly ho made an Impromptu Inspection of time camp There had been no fighting and discipline disci-pline had been considerably rclaxcjl a number of small thefts had recently boon committed and a negro had been arrested on suspicion When Gen Brooke then a colonel reached the guard tent ho was surprised to find nobody no-body about Ho lifted the flap and looked Inside There sat a colored man In a secondhand uniform smoking and playing with a kitten Wheres the guard asked the colo ncl sharply Do guard repeated the negro Oh deys nil out nlayln hunball But whores the corporal of the guard then he demanded The ncsro grinned Dc corporal he responded is dc bos player In de regiment Great heaven man Then whores the prisoner Have they taken him along with them to piny too The fellows crln broadened No ho said they havent done that Is de prisoner |