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Show PARALYZED Tit A SCRATCH. I A SOLDIER'S OKAl'IIIC STORY OF A HALF HOUR'S AG01VOXA BAm.EFTT.rj'. 'I have read of menjbelug paralyzed paral-yzed by a wound aud unable to move," said a well "known jircrai-uent jircrai-uent Mam cftlceholdcr, "and I believe be-lieve IL I know that there have been many cases of the klud, and one of them in i-irticul.ir hassucun personal twist that I have good reason lo remember. "It was at the baltle of Chautilly iu the early jort of the fijliL We had approached a law rambling fenci a Virginia fence, as they were called, and I had my gun through it and was doing what service ser-vice 1 could. I saw the spllnteis fly from a piece of that fence under theimpulsrofa ball from the enemy. en-emy. 'In the lightning flash of the flying wood I seemed to find lime to dodge, and then Ihere was a quick pain like the scaring of a hot iron and the splinter was through my lint band and along my scalp, penetrating It, but cot injuring the skull. , , "The blow was severe aud stunned stun-ned me, and I remember with my last look at tbo rcene the fighting trooi?, Ihe smoke, the battle aud the trampling men. "I fell back, my legs half doubled up beneath me, aud iu a moment my strength was gone and I was powerless. 1 saw everything. J.eu tell upon me. Men trampled ujwn me. Uorw reared arouud me. The battle was on all sides. "My wib were clear, my brain unclouded, but there was I, dying a death momentarily, alive, yet dca J aud u0eriuc more tortures than 1 thought life could have. I lay there peihaprf half au hour every uio-tueut uio-tueut a vtar of agony when I felt some oue's hand on my collar, and 1 was dragged out acd turned on my face, v here I lay for a moment as some one rilled my cartridge i The motion saved me. My pulse seemed to stir, ciy heart bent, my will to re-exert itself, and (n a few; minutes I was myself. The wound was so small that I slamhed it with my handkerchief and iu half an hour I was as well as ever, 'If tho hand had not found my coalcollar I should have been bleaching bleach-ing my hanesouChantillyat this moment instead of here talking to i you, aud it would have lieen lough to have atd Inonsuchascratch." i IjetciUiijj Jjurnat. |
