ONE HONEST MAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1511, 17 October 1883, Page 2

ONE HONEST MAN.

- The other day sixiuensat atound a stove in a-Detroit tobacco store. There had been a long period of silence, when one of them rubbed his leg and remarked : "That old woundl feels aB if it was going to open again. 1 shall always remember the battle of Rich Mountain." There was a'silent stir around the stove,.and a second.man put his hand to his Bhoulder and observed: " And I shall not soon forget Brandy Station. Feels to-day as if the lead was going to work out,' The interest was now considerably increased, and the . third man knocked the ashes off his cigar and said: " Yes, those two were hard fights, butyou ought to have been with Nelson and •Franklyn. Lor', but wasn't I'excited that day ! When these two fingers went with a grape shot I never felt the pain I" The fourth man growled out something about Second' Bull Bun and a sabre-cut on the head, and the fifth man felt his left side and said he should always remember the lay of the ground at the Yellow Tavern. The sixth man was silent. The other five looked at him and waited for him to speak, but it was a long time before he pointed to his empty sleeve and asked:" Gentlemen, do you know where I got that 1" Some mentioned one battle and some another, . but he shook his head and; continued:" Boys,, let's be- honest and own right up. I lost my arm by a buzz saw ;.and now we will begin on the left and give overyone a chance to clear his conscience. Now then, show jour wound," The five men leaned back in their chairs and smoked fast, and chewed hard, and looked at each other, and each one wished, lie was; inTexas, when a runaway flew by, and gave them a chance to rush out , and get clear of the ono armed man. It was a narrower escape than any of them had during the war.—"Detroit Free Press."