Show 1 1 f W TA r A CAUTI otTS commissary unless be ha actually seen them no one can form adny adequate ide of tia vast of white covered wagons which followed our armies carrying food doraye and ammunition nor can any one who has not actually fd a panic among the drivers bf these wagons form any of the ter roi into which bey sometimes thrown the drivers of the ammunition batons wre especially anxious to keefa of manre of shells and no wander for if a to fall amonda lot mth per fedell the result may perhaps he imagined it was not strange thare fore the driver ban ammunition wagon with six culps in front of him and several tons of death and destruction behind him felt somewhat nervous when he heard the whirr of the shells over of alp pines in for my ment I 1 passed one af these trains jahe commissary was dealing out forage to bis men who were standing around nim in a circle each a baa for h oita which the ws alternately dealing out to them with a bucket i bucketful bucket tul to this man then to the next and so on around the circle it was clear that he wag more concerned about the shells than interested in b oats for he ducked his head al moi every time he poured a bucketful into a while I 1 wa looking at them page a michigan bov orderly to our brira dier beneral Re came up 01 his horse search ot our division train for he oats jo his borcea if a moment to contemplate tha scene t was he said to roe in a you just keep an eye on my horse will you and I 1 it show you how I 1 get mv oats it v as well known that parc could pet oata ahen nobody else could the trams opre miles and ip the and had not been seen tor a eck was determined should cot go to bed supper le s oats aoi the generals horse Page would have by book or by you see that commissary commiS bAry yonder said page a he dismounted and threw a bacr over bis arm hes a coward h is more interested in rhe shells than anything eue dont know out oats to the right man or not jut leap an eye on cay borst his way atif the circle of teim aho vho were too much essayed in wat chini for shells to notice the presence ot a stranger page opened his bag while mr duckins his bead at every crack of the cannon poured in four buckets of oat where upon ado shouldered his prize and ic turned mounted hi horse with a lauch and a amk at me st f august |