HE WANTED PARTICULARS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3217, 21 October 1881, Page 3

HE WANTED PARTICULARS.

A pompous looking colored man, wearing a veteran's badge over his heart, encountered in front of the City Hall a brother of the 1 color wearing a small flag on his coat and l trying to look as if he had been starved in < Andersonville for a year and a half. 1 ' Stop, sah—stop !' commanded the first. ( ' Am you a weteran, sah ?' i ' I 'spects I ar',' was the reply. i ' You war' in the army, eh ?' \ 'Yes, sah.' | 'War' you a cook or a wagin driver ?' f ' No, sah ; I was in de ranks!' was the indignant reply. ' I war' right dar at Peterburg.' j ' Waitin' on do hospital ?' ' No, sah!' ' In de commissary department.' ' No, sah ; I war' in de light!' '' ' Behind a log ?' J ' No, sah !' 1 c Did you have a gun ?' ' Yes, sah!' 1 War' it loded ?' 'Yes,sah !' ' An' you fired it off ?' ( ' Yes, sah ; of course I did.' . ' Was it pinted to de sky ?' ' No, sah ; it was pinted at de inemy.' ' De butt eand fo'most ?' £ ' No, sah !' f ' An' it went off!' £ c Yes, sah.' < ' An' de inemy drapped ?' ' I can't say as to dat, sah.' 1 ' What! you down dar shooting away i Uncle Sam's powder an' lead without hittin' < anybody ? Take off dat flag, sah ! What i biziness has you to come out among dis crowd an' purtend dat you saved de Union, when you war' eatin' fo' dollars wof of grub , per week an' shootin' wid yer eyes shet ? j Go away, sah ! It war' some sich chicken as you dat shat off my heel in that same - battle, just as I had surrounded ahull rebel regiment. Stan' back, sah —doan' talk to a genwine old weteran, sah !' —Detroit Eree ■ Press.