ACCOUNTING FOR A VETERAN
% » A traveller in Texas says that once he was riding noar the New Mexico line, when he met a rather pompods-looking native of the region, who introduced himself as Colonel Higgins, of Devil's river. " Were you a colonel in the Confederate army '?" the traveller asked. " No, sah," I' On she Union side, then ?" " No, sub ; nevah was in no wah." " Belong to the Texas Rangers ?' " No, sah ; I do not." " Ah, I see ; you command one of the State lailitia regiments." "No, sah, I don't. Don't know nothing about soldiering.' 1 "Where, then, did you set (he rank of colonel? 11 " I'se a kunnel by ujdriage, mb. n "By marriage ! liojs that ?" " I married the widow of a kunnel. sah— Kunnel Thomson, of Waco."
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Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 29, 28 August 1905, Page 2
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128ACCOUNTING FOR A VETERAN Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 29, 28 August 1905, Page 2
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