Mahone's Legs.
Billy Mahone is an irritable man, and has the thinnest legs in the world outside of an anatomical museum. One cold, blustery morning in Dscember, 18G1, his tent was pitched on a bleak Virginia hillside. He was indulging in a morning nap when Uncle Davie, hia negro body servant, tiptoed in, stumbled over something, knocked over the general's cot and spilled him on the ground. Springing to his feet the irate general grabbed a sword and gave chase to the flying Davie. The darkey jumped a fence, and feeling safe, turned to the general, whose shirt was napping in the breeze, and yelled : Massa William, you ain't trustin' you'self in din wind on dem legs, is you?" — Cci2>itol.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2018, 13 June 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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120Mahone's Legs. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2018, 13 June 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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