i8 THE BA TTALION.
Six Words.
A little court scene in Tennessee is thus described by the
Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle;
Aunt Cherry Mallory was recently put on the witness-stand
to tell what she knew about the annihilation of a hog by a rail-
w T ay locomotive. After being sworn she was asked by the
lawyer if she saw the train kill this hog. “Yess,” she said,
“I seed it.”
“ Well,” said the lawyer, “tell the court, in as few words
as possible, all you know about it.”
“ I kin do dat in a mighty few words,” said Aunt Cherry,
clearing her throat, and with one eye on the judge and one on
the lawyer, she said: “Hit jes’ tooted and tuck ’im.”
An editor has been inspired, after looking over his list of
delinquent subscribers, to compose the following; “How dear
to our heart is the old silver dollar, when some kind subscriber
presents it to view; the liberty head without necktie or collar,
and all the strange things which to us seem so new; the wide-
spreading eagle, the arrows below it, the stars and the words
with the strange things they tell; the coin of our fathers, we’re
glad that we know it, for some time or other ’twill come in
right well; the spreadeagle dollar, the star-spangled dollar, the
old silver dollar we all love so well.”
It isn’t always the cadet with brains
Who in military has the greatest gains;
There are exceptions to all rules,
And fortune (or the commandant) often favors fools. Ex.
Tell me not in accents weary
That I bore you with this trash;
What is life worth to anyone
Who has not tasted the mess-hall hash? Ex.