. . is darkey to work witha pick and opened a other officers tauntedhim with scoffs and jeers,as one void of understand-ing, declaring his schemeto be wholly impracticableand illusory. With faith inhis genius, he kept on andin two days had a fireplace,with a chimney extendingabove the ridge of the was not a thing of beau_ty, indeed quite the reverse^but it proved to be a joyforever, as long as it had amission to fulfill. In theevening he built a fire totest the value of his achieve-ment. It worked to a charm. Its d
. . is darkey to work witha pick and opened a other officers tauntedhim with scoffs and jeers,as one void of understand-ing, declaring his schemeto be wholly impracticableand illusory. With faith inhis genius, he kept on andin two days had a fireplace,with a chimney extendingabove the ridge of the was not a thing of beau_ty, indeed quite the reverse^but it proved to be a joyforever, as long as it had amission to fulfill. In theevening he built a fire totest the value of his achieve-ment. It worked to a charm. Its draft was excellent; in fact itdrew to his tent all of his fellow officers to enjoy its genialwarmth. Those who had scoffed the loudest were now the mostenthusiastic in its praise. The next morning every one of those of-ficers set about a similar enterprise, and in two or three days theirtents were all equipped with these most comfortable aeessories. During the last month of our stay, wagon loads of pecanswere hauled to camp from the Guadalupe bottoms, The nuts. WON P. SCOMPANY P, SIXTY FIFTH. 768 JOHN HKFW A LONG BOW. [November, having ripened, they were blown off by the high winds and wereeasily gathered in large quantities. John Linkhart, of Company F, Sixty-fourth, was an adeptin woodcraft. Wild bees were numerous in the woods along theGuadalupe, and Linkhart, who could locate a bee-tree with un-erring precision, was the means of providing large quantities ofdelicious honey. He was also a mighty hunter, like Nimrodof old. It was his rifle that brought down the deer which were hauled to camp from theGuadalupe. Like all suchmen, Linkhart was a spin-ner of yarns which were anextremely heavy tax uponthe credulity of his day some of his com-rades were talking aboutthe branding of the greatherds of Texas cattle, tomark the ownership, Muchcuriosity was expressed asto the manner in which itwas done. Why, its easyenough!1 said just loads a cannonwith red-hot
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