| Show lit 10 TO WAR ivall flos allulli III blut blue ivic swaggered arid and swore a lilt I 1 knew anuw a girl irl who lit at the beginning of ilia wor was so no fillod filled with patriot asin nud had so BO weighed iowa down by a sense bense of u duty so BO carried away by nn an ad impulse that she bho followed the squad of boys who had enlisted enli stoil lu in her neighborhood and dressing as ti a boy enlisted in the tha company that was wan forming iu in the county town her friends iula discovering the loss long hair fairine she had cut from her bar head bead and the cloth ink she ho had bad thrown off iu in her fathers father baru barn gave I 1 immediate pursuit As they were driving into the tha city they saw walking along the ing a cigar a young follow fellow who had tile tha same sort bort ol of face as the girl they were in pursuit of they stopped and accosted the young fol follow lowI i and were treated to such a shower of epithets bets and uch such an exhibition of bravado that thai they admitted their mis mia take and apologized lur for it an hour hoar later one of tho party found the same young fellow deathly sick from amok lug ing the tha cigar ciar lie he called lira lim by the tha girls kielb name and found th that at after all the young follow fellow who vvhs had done dona such lard swearing was waa the girl they were looking for isho was taken home anti and afterwards entered the tha service as aa a hospital nurse in the tha last year of tho the war I 1 found her again in mens mans clothing crying as only a broken hearted woman can all cr cry over a light haired mat man shot dead in tho the charge of resaca she cared nothing then for exposure and went home in ia a widows dress dresa another girl I 1 remember h had ad a pleasanter plea santer experience I 1 was waa exam ining surgeon atone of the recruiting camps early in ilo ilia war and on one occasion he aa I 1 passed down tho the line of a company found folind in open or delfor des for muster and in inspection I 1 no as aa the hands were holdout bold out brie bee set get that to my practiced eye belonged to a woman I 1 said cothill at tho the time but after consultation with tho colonel had the recruit with the lie feminine hands handa bro brought to head tern the brig bright ht I 1 looking soldier lid mattea in two minutes that she aha was a soloan and in two days the was waa at home borne A year otter after that I 1 was at a ball in washington As I 1 stood blood a little aside from wei main party wish ing that I 1 was in front with the tha array army a young lady came towards meb with exaggerated as aa she bb straightened up went through th the motions of obeying tho the ord order eye right she offered me her er bar hand d and a thanked me for home something thing that it eh bb supposed that I 1 bad done dome and walked away she was pretty enough to be ba the belle of the occasion and I 1 saw that the he took considerable delight in my confusion of mind nil of which I 1 understood lafer whon when I 1 learned that she ahe was my recruit with the ladylike I 1 lauda bands she afterwards told me that she alia owed me a debt of gratitude for topping stopping in at the right time to break down her romantic botio notions cor cop chicago horald harald |
