. . me, but in the con-fusion of the break-up, oneof the privates slippedaround and played a crueljoke on me, by getting mygirl and walking off* withher. By the time I couldrecover from my surprisethe girls were all taken butone. She had got left be-cause she was an old maidand the homeliest one inthe lot. I made the bestof it and took her, and bythe time we reached herhouse I found LieutenantBell had her sister. Sohugh woods. you see the officers didnt OND LIEUTENANT, SIXTY-FIFTH. always come ont ahead! One more tale should not be o
. . me, but in the con-fusion of the break-up, oneof the privates slippedaround and played a crueljoke on me, by getting mygirl and walking off* withher. By the time I couldrecover from my surprisethe girls were all taken butone. She had got left be-cause she was an old maidand the homeliest one inthe lot. I made the bestof it and took her, and bythe time we reached herhouse I found LieutenantBell had her sister. Sohugh woods. you see the officers didnt OND LIEUTENANT, SIXTY-FIFTH. always come ont ahead! One more tale should not be omitted. It is concerning twoyoung officers who were about as badly scared as LieutenantsMoores and Bell were at Lafayette. In both cases each of thevictims could say, as Adam did after he had eaten of the forbid-den fruit: M The woman beguiled me ! Adjutant Scran ton, ofthe Sixty-fifth, used to get a little lonesome, sometimes, at Madi-son station, and then he would climb upon his horse and ride toBeaver Dam, a few miles distant, where his old company, B, Cap-. i865.] MY kriknp, JUDGH PKRKIXS. 697 tain Trescott, was stationed. He did so one Sunday, al>out thelast of February. Trescott proposed that, they ride out two orthree miles to call upon my friend, Judge Perkins. He saidhe had been there several times and had become well acquaintedwith the judge and his family, in which there were two charmingand in every way excellent young ladies. Scranton bit eagerlyat a hook so temptingly baited. Trescott had a mule with whichher. our that region, and together they went, lured b\ the charms of those comelydamsels. As they rodegayly along, Trescott confi-dentially informed Scran-ton that one of the girlshad a beau in the rebelarmy—one Captain Mc-Donald—who was in thehabit of stealing over occa-sionally to visit her. T:cott said that he did notrelish the idea of the rebelscourting the girls in hisbailiwick, but he knew ofno way to prevent it; and,besides, he had a fellowfeeling f
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