A PERSHING STORY.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14540, 18 October 1917, Page 2

A PERSHING STORY.

General John J. Pershing. -at .a [arewell luncheon in Washington before his departure for France in command ox the American Expeditionary Force, said in a brief speech: the Germans accuse us of 'vioJatng into: national law wn ~sk tliom in reply to explain tho legality of their |ialiv imvders by Zeppelin and submarine. Well, the German answer to this is.oinethin, haughty an.i va-ao. It js like Colonel Carter, of Oartor-sville. Carter, of Cartersvilie, on tho verandah of his Cape May eott?<>"e ujta Tho sea spread before him and'a. 1111 I nt <{H loP on tJl(? table at his side. i yes, sah.' he Avas saying, 'it's a inweriul fertile country down round Carter Hall. Why, sa h, I know woods down there- where the trees grow so closn.; that you can't shove your hand betwou tiiG trunks. And gauio'! Why sah, 1 ye seen deer in them woods with an eight-loot, spread of antlers, «iii, mi eight-foot spi-ead.' " 'Cut, Colonel,' asked a Philadelphian 'how can the deer get .such an-; Jens between those trunks"?'. : "Colonel Carter drew iiiinsolf up ! 'mat, sah,' he said, 'is their busi-: ness. '