| Show disciplining A shirker an old civil war utonn vf term tells a good story of how a lazy private in his regi anent was ared of it appear i that the fellow was wa utterly no good lie had boon drafted into the tho service and thereafter devoted hia his whole time and attention to gatting out of it IL lie ile spent than halt half his time in tho the ho pital tent ho rau ran the gamut of all the dig dis bases that biesh is heir to or lias has acquin gd oil through ita its own misguided efforts somehow enen the severity of military discipline was inadequate to his case shirk he lie could and would one day the regiment T n as ordered to battle there waa was to be a long hard bard march and a fluhs conflict nt at the end of it when t the he orders came the shirker collapsed he was taken to a anan at i bu lance whore where he lie lay apparently in a comatose condition I 1 earing nothing heeding nothing the burgeon a anew new officer just appointed on tho the staff was sent for to see him the physician chanced to bo be a keen witted man and after taking in the situation be he banaag ed the fellow a eyes motioned to a rate vate to take his feet he be himself hira belf took the head and without mora more ado dumped the comatose shirker beaufore bead fore most into tho the river As it was the dead of winter with ice blocks clogging the water a ft more violent remedy could nol not be imagined i and the way the follow folio v swam to shore was a caution 1 irom rom that day forth he lie was never kaohn to try his game of shirk again philadel phia timen |
