History of the Lemen family, of Illinois, Virginia and elsewhere . less jokes that they could not reprimand him withoutbreaking down with laughter. An event in this lineoccurred at the building of Fort Adams. Mr. Lemen,with a number of Frenchmen, were hauling a wagonload of timbers up an incline, when suddenly he pre-tended to become frightened, and breaking out of theharness the wagon descended and a Frenchman wasinjured, for which offense the Colonel, though anardent friend of Mr. Lemen, had to send him to theguard-house. But pending his brief detention therehe, with his musical voice of tre
History of the Lemen family, of Illinois, Virginia and elsewhere . less jokes that they could not reprimand him withoutbreaking down with laughter. An event in this lineoccurred at the building of Fort Adams. Mr. Lemen,with a number of Frenchmen, were hauling a wagonload of timbers up an incline, when suddenly he pre-tended to become frightened, and breaking out of theharness the wagon descended and a Frenchman wasinjured, for which offense the Colonel, though anardent friend of Mr. Lemen, had to send him to theguard-house. But pending his brief detention therehe, with his musical voice of tremendous volume,sang the national airs, and among them, *YankeeDoodle, with such wonderful accent and effect thatthe whole army heard him, and General Tayloralmost took a fit of laughter at it. The Frenchmansoon discovered that Mr. Lemen was singing himselfinto universal favor with both officers and men, andhe petitioned Taylor to turn him out and reprimand ?» c Vs «g T g tn W I 00 EC — li 2 a 3 OS 5 S B1 oc o _ <<: 3 I I «-• 3S 5. H *2 o 00O (0 00. WM. LEMEN, NANCY TOLIN, CATHARINE HARLOW. 79 him. So, accordingly, he called him before him andasked him if he could proceed with assisting to haulthe timbers for the fort? To this Mr. Lemen repliedthat he would try; but he told General Taylor that ashe, in doing so, was filling the place of a horse forthe Government, and to make it true to nature andrealistic it would be necessary for him to shy andscare at such objects as would naturally frighten aspirited horse; and that he would greatly oblige himif he would detail the Frenchman to remove the blackstump which frightened him, and such other objectsas might involve the safety of the team by prevent-ing a second affright which might be more disastrousthan the first. By this time General Taylor was soovercome with laughter that he could scarcely com-mand his dignity, and he afterwards said that Lemenwas worth a regiment of men to keep his arm} ingood cheer, besides his e
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