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Show WHERE HE DREW THE LINE. fte-i. Frederick D. firant tells the following as an exsirpl of quick wit in perilous petition. Wb"n light battery X wss stationed sta-tioned on Wareham street, Boston, one of tii? oftVcrs Til Lieut. Brooks. Ahout the time he wss elected Lieutenant." : Brooks, wh-i was a painter, had a contra'! 1 to psnit the gun carriages and caissons, whi-h he "irtied out in good shape. When he wss before th examining board for lu ait:nment to duty be waa asked how he dismounted the pieces when he did the paintifg. As explsined, the dismounting proved to hare been done in a most nocoa-ventional nocoa-ventional manner. - - "Do Jon eonkider. Lieutenant, thst you scf"d in this manner according to the regulations regu-lations t" atked tha chairman of tha board, brusquely. Tha reply was: "I did at dismount j e pieces ss Lieut. Brooks of the sxiiUstt, but as George Brooks, the painter." k Lieut. Brooks wss passed all righa m$ rweived his assignment to duty. B. ',ta Hrald. . . if' |