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_ el with the movinantse fibfim~wyfi 3+ & Pune s, Siebe otal iiot it dip Reinier mete -o Porueson sires @ TRESENTING himsol{f to the Lieu- 'e» tenant, Tom, much Endignnnt at the manner he had been treated, and muttering vengeance towards the despicable mon, whoso falso odths hid not only worked himrank injustice, but what was more annoying, had brought upon him the sncorse and con- --- -tampt tommunity, Himsolf as an candidate for enlistment, It cannot be Genied, thit previous to this occasion, he bad beon lorg and se- erotly revolving in his mind, tho idea of going to the wars Everything connect- ths Rio Grande, was of intonse interst to him. Honrafter hour ho had read and ponderad the descriptions of the IattEles of the 8th and Ith of May, with which tho newepipers ofthat day were fled. And many a night when he had sought his humble fodgings and rotired, thoughts of the valorous desds our soldiers ha@-performed, drove slumber from hi oyem. His fimey conjured np thoe wholo array, until #t momed as if ho was looking from a disfince on the scone, could lear the trompat's peat |- and the olash ofarmas Thus. fornlong whila, ho dreamed away the tino until his soul burned to follow to the field the banzer of the stirg and sttipes. The af Bir of tho neanpltnaudt batty, howorer, hastened the conclusion to which his mind wonlti mm’mfly bavoarrived, and dolmmihndm atopcée tobreak through corfmin obstacles which hitherto had oc- wasione his delay, . j After mtroducinghnmself to the Lieu- Mmhglfi haking known the object of his visit the latter procedad to sam- ino him with the utmost tofuatiny, The bard, strong MMe full chief, 'and more tharadd, the mainly Mug of Bie tian, Emqreksed théoficer with an opirdon post firomble towards him. Siving a pg}, sngfhlamg ont hi“ Fem- omndaris book, hd Enguited: __ ‘Yonrnkme, if yhu please, sir r 'Tom\Bowe, atc nothmg eke, was the prompt reply. ls ~> ”Amffimf asgeigagam unqmred the Lieutenant, with ® smile; | ¢ Wham t‘o the matkro® that,' ans- mored Tom, 'anléié the fstords in the old Bible ligg I'm Minty-331? aud ifany- body say; they do, I'll Lirhim.' Kaving gone tfi'fonghafixe necessary | ea ath of and forth- forms, Tom took the falty to the Geisha: -__ with was meumgifiho-ed into a soldier] atthe United She army. \a. [COPYRIGHT SECURED Lire JN 1 wmwgmgg (HAPTER XV. of onur army on | the wild shouls-and- shricke dlled -the! 'I doubt not,\ remarked the Lisuten- ant, after all was over, and he had res- quested him to be seated, for ho had be- come extramoly interested in him, 'I doubt not but you will be pleased with “9th the service, and should judge,from what little have seon of you, thit you aro one to bo depended upon in the timo of peril? ; - _- {which will Gunman, and your fellow sortedloeverymmm his pa r 1,9 - j ‘ij-lfi 'My fing fellow,\ said the Liew , tenant langhmglmmoderatelyat thesingmrlaron« thasiash of his new reel-mt, iwi ment like you, Ly upon him. Bend Edd. is had,. 96m solgiers, of which there are twolve, will frxdige him by one expedient of | leave at sunrise.' er, to nvmfitheflufim ant respofiiifiili— Bowing low, Tom quitted the presence ties he had takon upon himself; It tras of the officer, and hastened in searali of amuding enough to listen to 136111an some of his more especial friends, to bid discourse, as he represented in many a them a long good byo, 'Thofrst onehs comical figure of speech, the certainty mat in the street was Barney, the grivo that he was golng to the divil as giro as digger. - ___ | hfs namo -was Tors, and bringing upon 'I'm off, Barnoy, I am,' cried Tom, is bEmgelf the whole inventory of haman he appronched him. i tribulations. - In fact, he bluntly coun , Dressed in tight, blue pants, with his ' eeted him. to desert, but it was 0mm») short roundabout buttoned close, and that at ono6 defeated all tha hopes that his sroall militexy cap perched uporths had prompted it 'Tom almost blushed at this compii. mont, addromed to him in s kind and courteous fnunmer, and insinuating that that he baliove@ he was rther trouble- some to an cmemy, enquired of the offi. cor if he had cover bom ina battle. 'In Florids,\ answered the Lisuten- ant, 'wao had sowerelakirmishes with the Indians, but they wero alight compared with thoso in which I was en- gaged at Palo Alito and Resica do in Pal- ma.' \Whoop lths devil, wit you HMhar? shouted Tom tending eagerly forward, and gazing at him with as much intensi- ty as if ho hud enddonly wiked up in the | presonce of od Zeck himsolf; for Palo Alto and Remsen, in his mind wore syu- onymous with glory, and nama which ho had erabalimed in his memory. Humoring his inquisiivenes, the Lisutenant, in munswor to his interroga- tions, prececlod to recount to his excit. ed listener, all the particulars of tho«s eventful days He discribed thodepart. ure from Point ; his owen: emafiomg when he firs! beheld the crnearmmy's long line stretchod across the fiéld of Palo Alto; and hoy aswéeelly the tired vartiors slept that night, as they lay down upon their mfinfigifie dad, Intls open plain. But whan bs came to speak of the next motning-the morming of the immortal ninth of Miy-how\ thitide of| battle for a tine wavdd to and fro-how the deed and wourded-fell axound him Hike the forest feaves in sutums-hLow air, as the flores hodls rushed together in the fight-of his ora wourd whils passing throughs, thoe chipparal-of hij “figment opaing.-to the figit and lef, 'and. cheeringthe cavpiry as tlzey galloped <to the charge -of all the glonous of those who, that doy soughsatid found fie \bubble repflthfifsh 'dven an the tan- Mons month '\'Pom could 10 longer re- 8 an jgntl‘loohng‘ iter ,as' Tim the digpieyt . and. mum\ 3m‘theidea ill-file was com fed unmask-nip enema-1mm p top of bis hoad, so entirely different from | * Destrt I' thundered Tom mdignmtly, 2s, the broad-brimmied tarpaulin, red shirt | * Biaven't X takon the cath, and d'ye sup- \o % and loose trowsers, 'thirty:nine ' poss damme, does yo fnsinivate T'A around the bottom,' being probably the swrear to m lie, like. Oharldy O'Teary and . same pair which tho Bowery boy refusd biscrow? No, no, Barnsy O'Riley, % to rccapt from thotailor, bocuse thy bates to leavo ys, Ldocs, and Pll think wore an nok too amall, and 'throw thim oF you When I'm Tar away. But You sas on his hands,\ {for an more particuBarae. , E\m in for to go; and nothing but death sount ofwhich, raforenos is had &0 one pey covey, will over coar Fom BGves io | |_ . Chartay, who Awelloth in a shady willtgo @escrthie colom.\ And hedrewhim»el ° -- by a plemant river, where on quiet sim- tp proudly, like one whose dignity had mor evonings may bo heard thosound of teon touched in & tender point. falling waiters, and on Sabbath dazes the * An' thrat's what's going todo it, Tom,\ 'alated proaching of the gospel!) wra my Beath will come to-ye, away from frinds that Tom'snew habilimentssocommplos- an' hone; no one til care for yo, no ome ly disguisd him that Barnoy somfooly ti watch over yo, and no Kathleen or know him. | her mother til came yor pmth into tho When, however, he comprehended n#xtwirtruld. Stay at home, Tom, an! that his old friend had enlisted, tre or. as long as Barty O'Riley har a bit and pressed his surprise and mgmt in the ' Sup, yore welcome,\ und the tears, Toole - alrongest torms. frag so strangely out of place upon the tBe mo sowl. Tom,\ exclaimed the '§§m of Barney, trickled down grave digger, his countenanc 402008) -- qoni(sti a large lump Ting in bit a moet sorrowful cypresaion Hb MUS pmt choinpibdown; heRAId PK --- =- have beon the avil one, so it must, that a somsrhat philosophical in; at e put it irito your hard to go a sogerits ait gotto Wick the bucket; Old ' Och, toki, ya'li be shooted sure, and boy, andl whether zt’tihhmér next, there willbe no onotilburyyt ThiMk oo after, dooen't AMIOUNE £0 of that, yo divill Ob, Tom, Torm, bat much when you coms to reckon up the 3gH rus the day yoivir got into them score at last. You're chap what goes regmxenm‘lk. tako Barney O'Riley's word tor b the dead. That for that,' ond Be-lappod Fom on the it (C\ MurYing the. # your fioulaarin the most #i ifcart man trade, md I down't blama yenone, be- anodit ' cxuse, ya wes, let eveiy oun haro Bie nor. : own nollone, just as Ke - m “if!!!“ 61111111136 the {mate Taxy Hangman“. “1mm ‘Spa‘ I ain , , so reksons that him to the step o kBHlel Hhot 464 ara asmeli-it wom't . bad taken, erpatiating in rather rough be through the Back, - Barney ' O'Riley; - Ish goage upon the treatment he hadrs- mmgzfifm Raw mam Mira andexpmscmg his desire to lsare g ; a “£351?“ wheresuch kind of justice W# 1s defined for to \ moulder ' 0.3qu mail Administered. ~It was a subtlety of law; grounftor m'flanpwhefhar he 330mm whidh the honest fellow: sendaatored it cap hirst or in a torsign' th. him ~ yaine to comprehend which infleted & ned brof the fild. of battle-ys Sunbelt penalty fof ohatatiking Gns, whome 10 wey iif, toll filler the \Eth? 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