SHERMAN’S -AVERSION.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1076, 20 May 1882, Page 4

SHERMAN’S -AVERSION.

General Sherman wept the other day after hearing “marching through Georgia” played at a banquet. His neighbour, General Grant, asked him, “ Wherefore'dost tbeu weep?.’ The general answered, “ 1 never was so all tired sorry 1 marched through Georgia as I have been in the last five years. Georgia be darned ! The people are good enough, but I’m listening to that tune for the 3,4G5,85.7th time. How would you like, Ulysses,” he continued; to hear that infernal melody over three million times? T hey have socked it to me from Maine to Texas and from Florida to Toronto,” and here he wept afresh. But General Grant quietly patted the little hero on the slioulder. and said, “ Sherry, it is only one of the penalties of greatness. 1 suffer worse than you do. I’ve had seven million cigars given to me because people think I like to smoke, 824 bull pups, and more horses tnau 1 can count. “ Sherry ” continued the general, “ when I see a horse, a cigar or a bull pup, 1 feel just as bauly as you do, but I never give way to my teeliugs. I —l sell 'em" “Yes,” answered Sherman, between his sobs, “ you can sell cigars, bull pups, and horses, but I can’t sell -that d -d lune for five cents.”