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Show A Tart Tongue. Col. Robert C. Carter, at a Nashville Nash-ville banquet, was talking about campaign cam-paign comrades. "Then (here was Dash of Company A," he said. "Dash had the reputation of being the nastiest-tongued man in the regiment. "It was Private Dash, you know, who, out foraging" one evening on a rich estate, came accidentally upon the owner's wife, a grande dame in evening dress. "Dash asked her for food. She refused re-fused him. He asked again. But, still refusing, she walked away. " 'No,' she said, 'I'll give you nothing, noth-ing, trespassing like this! I'll give ycu nothing. My mind is made up.' "'Made up, is it?' said Dash. 'Like the rest of you, eh?' " |