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Show 8avcd by a Belt Buckle. In a drawer of a desk In tho room of the Sergeant-of-Arms at tho Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Stato Houso there's an old belt buckle, green and tarnished with age, but with an Indentation so deep that one can thrust his llttlo finger well down to tho joint It la Major Charles G. Davis's "thimble," "thim-ble," and It wns modeled for him by a "Johnny's" bullet in tho first charge of the Massachusetts First Cavalry at Aldle, almost forty yean ago. Th Major was riding at the head of the troop when ho suddenly received so violent a blow In the pit of the stomach stom-ach as to send him at once to the ground off his horse. For a tlmo tho breath was knocked out of him, but rallying a few moments afterward, he felt that ho must bo desperately wounded from tho location ot the blow. v-A v-A comrade camo up and an oxamlna- p tlon was at onco made, and there, deeply Imbedded In tho bolt plato, was found tho flattened lead of a bullet which had so nearly punctured tho brass as to drlvo It In through coat and shht till It abraded tho skin. For days thero remained a big black and blue spot whoro tho bucklo had been. "That's tho way I got my thimble," tho Major says, "and If It hadn't been tough I wouldn't ho hero to show It." |