Show A gypsy yi isa girls horance Ilo niante in III this prosaic country after relating limy a bea beautiful g any 9 girt irl asked for all anil was aa grunt grant a ed shelf r tit nt his fathers home ono one night anany years ears ago adgar L wakeman says along kiili fill 0 other it lot recollect lowi i uniting clinging to ID tho the memory ol of tilt alm 1 my lily varlie uirl iest sit ext erl aliel I 1 r ea ile inbe r that t in it litter tinte hini when it was in ili tire fire side alle talk lull it was told that A father a bro brother lher or may liall it good fur nothing li g lo 10 lm vr r with wine hoino keen instinct had fol followed follo lovied Aed hie lie lost girl through I 1 alir iv clorin iii when the hand band to tit which belonged caw sue she wits not likely to return barely 6 fennii oni ho hn errand oil which bno bho lie bad ben sent to tile the vil il and finding her safety housed for I 1 atit it a night lind hall faili finsted tod hai eyes ees but fora for a moment upon un ilia alicer within then lie he had credit delit relit to tit the I 1 hirn hini where like it 11 doss dog ho he had lahod and allbe at alL bd ched until the morn lilt Ing earno when it 11 barru brea ikui krait it lio lie halt taken charge of the girl hurrying away to 0 o join ju tile itie cavalcade how I 1 bany 11 it 1 Y lullia on oil its way to lo m winter inter qua and though in early curly tire I 1 never helard tift iril aught save hive lii ill tit gypsies and of these two in ili pir par ticul art lie of the 11 little it le laif s alf lier her gratitude to my mother for fir her nu etero though none thu feel 18 genuina hospitality her clr gretia joy tit at meeting limiting her gyl khay y his hid I 1 nute mute look of heartfelt thanks for our mile little kindness but doggen refusal re fusil of additional favors favora aad the hie lust last of thein as they filed over those blenk bleak bills like weird sl bouet tm against the a filtered sky roster ed ta conviction that were not wolves and ripened tho the desire as aa I 1 ilia he years yea ra passed to know them clow to tile lie heart of their strange 1116 and its ila livins living it foams eem too that it touch of ro macipe waa destined to be H u part of the r reality the impulse lui born in the of whitt what wit driven into the farm farmhouse housa on wild november night only u little than ten years latea anothy november night came cama during a bitter time for many a thousand of us who wore the blue or gray sher loan ianni conquering hosts had swept from to A atlanta it ift and bey bekind ind tile the cruel of at hint ahad been made fo loxie tell with victor victory yi onward SAL vt these hosts to the wa sea some thousands of us ua had le len an ordered back by sherman to bittle will with t the hd brave hood flood and lili ilia berolo ba bani as with de desperado sperato valor they casaul led from time to time lima strategic points aloni along our bases of supplies and march and fight by night and day it was over the most dolorous warl wasted and godforsaken god forsaken coun i try that wintry alt skies lea ever lowered upon lu in those quick movements ofle of the a opposing brudes conff de ration and merey mercy seemed utterly lost refugees RD and nou non combatants were around into hopeless ou on tills november Nove niber night a train load alu ol 01 us I 1 vas vad being rushed toward nash v valle to hold thorn thomas is whom the gallant hood bad and ills half starved followers were already menacing menn ting we were of the gi artillery r illery our horses guns limbers chaissons caissons cais cals sons sims arli fleer wagons und anti all were packed roof high in freight cars and the meeli tu to ride as beat they in might ig t n op all AIL about the shed era of a depot were these helpless refugees refuge ea arinel principally I 1 1 lly women in it condition of dertl destitution t lon and squalor and subject to such in degnit dignities ies as mako make one heartsick to remember presently two of these a man and a woman cams came to 0 o me where I 1 wits on duly as a train guard and begged ino ina with a piteousness that cannot be retold that they might in ili some bome way be allowed passage ge toward the north on that train I 1 called nn an of fleer explaining matters hut but they hey were savagely tava gely re aused juseu they went away abjectly eliut ut soon aku aked back something in the wor nans voice andl and the roans mans in a n it e r s P P t a it midst 0 q t ot of f reco I 1 I 1 ec I 1 I 1 0 n a upon tile ine the night the Blonn storm the swarthy faces the skulking ways made trio masce see in the its ones before me those two d over the hie bleak hill unit wintry morning band lu in hand to together jether aya tile the fortu fortunes nei of war hall had really brought these two wo he athens man mail sod and wife low to a gorgio ihal chat or rion n on gypsy gipsy friend acain for succor I 1 knew whore where there hero were two grim arlin old oil cannon and limbers in ilia very earl car I 1 was guarding under which was a bit room I 1 had set sat I 1 tore store on myself but at the risk of a court martial I 1 smuggled my R gypsy friends in there among those old twenty four pound howitzers howll howit that had dobo much HU li deadly wark and building a camp kettles slid tarpaulins around theiu them nw saw them not igalo again until their discovery among meet tills this grim war material at nashville where wore lead dead than alle from freezing and fright they skulked away with such a look of gratitude to a certain li boy y soldier tilt fin I 1 shall never furget I 1 hive have seen it again and again in truth in many a 2 camp since I 1 sea it now as I 1 waltr words more than thirty years tiller alter the night flight when us as a t child I 1 slept tit in a lout loot eliy gla aroi chicago |