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Show Color And Cowardice. Colonel Mosby lias a peppery temper and ft was my misfortune to "excite it on the occasion of our first meeting, says a writer in the Los Angeles Express. Ex-press. Our talk after a time turned on the subject of courage, and I repeated tho old story of General Custer and the recruit. Custer is said to have been one of those rare men who are born without the sense of fear, and never lost color in any moment of peril. His troops were standing uuder tire, not permitted to return it. "Say," said tho quaking recruit to the veteran next him, "when are we going to get tho order, to retreat?" "Well," the old soldier said, "there's Custer on his horse just before you. Keep your eye on him and the moment you see him turn pale you must cut and run." "Fudge," snapped Colonel Mosby, "a man who turns pale has no business going into battle." "Why not?" "Because he's a coward, sir." Then I treated him to the other ehestnut about tho duke of Wellington, who pointed to a ghastly-faced young Ollicer marching past with head up toward the field of Waterloo nnd said: "There goes a brave man. He knows his danger, but goes to meet it." I also stated the fact that I had seen men in mining camps go into shooting scrapes white as sheets, but nevertheless neverthe-less tight coolly aud like the very deuce. "Pah I" was all Mosby said, and giving giv-ing me a look which might have meant that he suspected the color of mv own liver, he wheeled aud left me. But he came back presently aud talked of other things to show that he forgave me. |