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Show Not Hiring Generals. Since the war some of the privates have told with great relish of the old farmer near Appomattox who decided to give employment after the surrender of any of Lee's veterans who might wish to work a few days for food and small wages. He divided the Confederate Confeder-ate employes into pquads according to the southern cause. A neighbor inquired in-quired of him as to the different squads. "Who are those men working there?" "Them is privates, sir. of Lee's army." "Well, how do they work?" "Very well sir; first rate workers." "Them is lieutenants and captain?, land they works fairly well, but not as 1 good workers as the privates."' j "I see you have hired a third squad, who are they?" "Them is colonels." "Well, what about the colonels? How do they work?" j "Now. neighbor you'll never hear me say one word ag'in any man who 1 fit in the southern army: but I ain't ' a-gwine to hire no generals. From 1 Gordon's "Reminiscences' (Scribners). ' |
