Show HE TURNED ON THE GAS another incident 0 the youth of ceorge mrs pickett the widow of general pickett hero of the desperate rebel chargo at gettysburg relates an abec doto of an old mammy whom sho discovered at fredericksburg and who veritably believes eliat sho was first nurse hero ia her story sho was au old woman in a linsey woolsey petticoat and a bright turban and wo found her in ono of conr jaunts aromnd tho city and took a kodak picture of her ono of tho company asked her in fuu if eho remembered washington you see she was very old deed I 1 do miss sho an glibly perhaps you ono of his nurses mammy pat am jess I 1 nursed him when he was baby oh then yon must have known abent the cherry tree but and it waa explained to her and she listened with much interest izo don know bothin bout no cherry tree missy but I 1 members factly when ilia maw found him in lier room an do gas a barnin u ho done turn it on did ho tell her bo turned it on mammy deed he did fob ho ucb bertole no lie but mammy hero any gas in those days i yes dero was honey I 1 members dattlo wo decided that old mammy biad been tho servant of some georgo washington but not our own immortal george and we left her to enjoy her peculiar delusion undisturbed new york mail and express |