Army Boan” and “Fol Brown's Bay ” “Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marebing all the while the drum rattled and thandored, nd little drummer langhed and sang, tho very incuna of the care-Ereo spirit of tho soldior |
They stopped for a while, and the little man ¢ over and was introduead. Linutenant O' Ory was nemo; and after he hnd loft, Gonernl Prenticn los over to Montague and told hitn a ratory. “Chat | man,” he raid, “ beg ara drammer-bay in may mont, and went all through tho wae iu my brig and twa years azo YT mot him on the stroob one wintor night, ws thin as Dem, and vhivoring inn si evercont. J took him to dinnor with me mul wate him oat, and Lmade up my mind there was aonotl wrong. T made him tuke me hame, and de yor ter tho man was abaeving | MMe dusel a little: Colac ad and he'd got into troublo--the (rast heal daleew s his trado, And he had a wiek wifo, mol a days dloriking at six dotlary a werk 1”?
The General wont on fo tell af hin struggle bo ing tha little man to accopt his aid-~-to aveept a lann fow hundvods of dollars from Prontion, tha ban
- T novor had anything hit ime vo he all wy Site,’
seid, “ Dinally T took him inte ¢he bunk and you can soo he has enough ca eat!”
Thoy bogan to sing ayain, ond Montagne sat: thought over the atory, Tb sacmod ta hin typisi the thing that mado thin meeting heantiful te hé: of the apirlé of brotherhuod and serving that reig hers.—They sang Wo aro tantly to-night on: old camp ground "; they sang “Benny Tnvens, O and “A Soldier No Mara; they sang abhor song tondornesy and sorrow, and men folt a trembling
