. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . she w^as never long put to it for an old gentlemans Sunday overcoat hung by the win-dow, and quick as a flash she had snatched up the cards,and deposited them in the capacious pocket of this gar-ment. When Mr. Slocomb entered, his worth
. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . she w^as never long put to it for an old gentlemans Sunday overcoat hung by the win-dow, and quick as a flash she had snatched up the cards,and deposited them in the capacious pocket of this gar-ment. When Mr. Slocomb entered, his worthy daughterand her friends were engaged in a demure and piousconversation of the most edifying character. It had been Sallys intention to rescue the cards fromtheir hiding place at the first convenient unluckily all thought of the affair slipped out of her 132 KNAPSACK AND RIFLE. giddy liead, and when Mr. Slocomb put on his overcoatto attend meeting the next Sunday morning, the pictureddevices of Satan still snugly reposed in its right-handpocket. Yet utterly oblivious of this he made his wa,j upthe broad uncarpeted aisle with his usual stately gravityand air of pious meditation. He had reached the head ofthe aisle, in full view of the assembled congregation,when Satan put the idea into his head that his noseneeded PEIEND SLOCOMB ASTON^ISHES THE BEETHRENAND SISTERS. *Unfortunately for him, the same mischief-lovincrSatan had directed the cards when they fell into his})ocket, into the folds of his capacious when he flirted this square of linen about in the air,preliminary to Ijlowing his nasal trumpet, the cards weresent flying over the aisle and pews, to the utter horrorof the congregation. As for the old gentleman himselfhe stood as fiozen with horror as if he hud pulled the KNAPSACK AND RIFLE. 133 devil, instead of the devils bible, out of the depths of hisovercoat pocket. It was a situation worthy the pencil of a great his-torical pai
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