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Gen Hardin told me a story of a Captain of a unclear, who on leaving there saluted Mrs. Hardin & observed: "I hope you'll take no offence at my kissing your wife, for you're welcome to kiss mine, if you like."
He was drinking with this man, I think, and they were obliged to part at a particular hour, so the person who had to go laid his watch on the table; & when the moment arrived, word scratched out very deliberately put the decanter stopper in his watch fob and left his watch behind.
Mr. Thomas told me of a son's filial affection on the border: in Greene County, Tennessee. The Physician came too late, and expressed his deep regret at having done so; and at being told that the Father was dead. The youth answered: "You're right now, horse?. There's the old me laid out in t'other room, cold as a wedge!"
An open mouthed boy who was out with another