| Show SOME laSOF GEM SCOTT cin be no doubt that he guie al was vain of niana things and e so of bis for lat there was good reason I 1 waa so often sickened by hearing of all degraces remind him of his statue and symmetry but he was never offen aei he deferred lef erred to it himself on all aej sometimes under atran 0 circumstance as n the following cr which I 1 heard him relt several times it was I 1 think in the year 1800 alie gene al was alway minute ly particular in naming the exact date of eydi y event he besci abed w ion ti av engin the patt of ohio he stepped at a country store chiro they sold liquor by tho glass he had on a coalition a plain over coit that concealed his buttons ahe lin clord having stepped out he went behind the upon which abe classes stood to a desk ad was busa writing a note when a firmer stepped in and called out give me a lass of rum toddy tho fie peral straight up and turning full upon the min he exclaimed td did you ever know a man KIX feet four and a quarter inches tall to mil rum todd he told mo that when lie lecci ved bis first commission in the arm which was that of capt un he immediately or demtd anew suit of uniform stoid cap complete and had it tho room in abo house in the corners ot nanh he two looking plis then he cleared aay all let in as much liht a possible put on bis new uniform and bick and forth between tho for two haars hoars aut slid lie if any man had seen me I 1 should hive proceeded at once to put him to death 0 te day I 1 was to him a urtie lo in ot henry ola ibo anter de cald tho dig kentuckian na i imn of pica ence nith a bolty forehead and a ahre loo 0 alc to seven other ro normd oraton mil daid altin alio e avoie of sie aal ho concluded hi article tho all cicat men nive liiro mouths men havo laigo mouthy exclaimed tho mv mouth is not above tario edth cie aizo sizo it gouid be fr my bulk he was axie ively fond of his own with of men ot modern as well a ancient llo compared himself most with the eielt military ot the woi ids history and three cimei on vai ious occa ions did I 1 heir gen diott sa while he yet in hia vicror thit ho himsel net to ashine ton with many leml li between in this le mistaken as it az only in conscientious iou beia and pa that the two men resembled lesem bled each kolhei it wa reported thit in american veel the was to bo filed upon from a british batter as she pas ed abo river ilav ine heard the rumor the dress ed tull uniform and ed to a point on the hore z directly appo ilo the h suns here bv cliance he found an old aik oik that had been blown down iho dee was bajt slightly in aired and v as lying almost par ill 1 imah the bright faun enabled j to see cleair the soldiers eis on tie opposite shoie A the vessel approached the general red upon the old aik oik was mm echt fact in diameter and hire of limbs thirty or lorty teet aiom the upturned root he appealed taller than beffie and as he to and ho on ln high wooden wa k hi cocked hat looked higher and his plumes spread wider than ever bebing the moment when the prow of tho barcelona was directly opposite us he faced the foa and diew ins sword beiling it his scabbard scab baid ind ing its point sk ward as he would haunt tho moon then bringing his to a cairy ha scowled upon canidi Ja holding his odst height up stretched to its extremist alt tude never did knight ot hi valry though but fabled pi besent a shape more heroic he glistened with bui nihed steel and ind nas to look upon as a kieff of saia through he wa not fired upon he to this manifestation mani and it several he cine down itjin the om trie before his fici and brietling flun had wholly sub idad |
