WAR
"Jefferson Davis's speech last week at Chattanooga!" he says. "Why the Confederacy can not fail.
"Excuse me. I was reading the other side," says Dave. "The little rebel girl I'm in love with sent it to me. See? The other side is poetry. Give it back to me."
But the officer put it in his pocket.
"Is this girl Southern?" asks the officer.
"Lord!" says Dave. "The Southernest of the Southern! She's the rebelest rebel yet! If all the rebel soldiers would fight as hard as she does, the war wouldn't last a month!"
"The one we spoke of a while ago?" laughs the officer.
"The same one," answers Dave.
"You are going to marry her?" asks the officer.
"She'll never get away from me!" says Dave. "If I die for it—like you said."
"That's fine," says the officer. "But I suppose it will be some time yet, before you go to Virginia to marry her, Mr.—Mr. Mallory?"
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