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	“r enlisted April 10, 1865, and was sènt to San Diego, Texas; but I never was in a battle. . And they was only one time when ~ felt anyways skittish. That was when I was a new recruit on picket duty. And lt wae pitch dark, and I heard acmeth1n~ coniin‘ th ‘ough the bushes ‚ and I thought ‚ ‘Let ‚ ein • come ‚ whoever it is ‚ . And I ~ got my bayon~et all ready, and waited. I‘8e gittin‘ aorta nervous, and purty soonthe bushes opened, and.

what you think come out? A great big oie hogs

“In 3~une ‘65, 1 got ai cold one night, and contracted this throat trouble I gotnever did get rid of it. Still carry it from the war. Got my first pension on that $6

a month. Ain‘t many of us left to get pensions now. They‘s only Il veterans left in Cincinnati ~

	.	“They used to be the Ku Klux Klan organization. That was the patrollers, then they called ~em the Night aidera ‚ and at one time the Regulators . The ‚ 01e Dragon ‚ ‚ hi s name was Siri~nons, he had. control of‘it, and that continued on f~or 50 year till. after the war when Garfield was president. Then it sprung up again, now the King Bee is in prison.

	“Well ‚ after the war I ~ was tree • But it ‘ t make much difference to me ; I just lied to work for myself instead of somebody else. And I just rambled around. Sort o~ a floater. But I always worked, and I alwa~rs eat regular, and had regular rest. ~!ork never hurt nobody. I lived so many places, Cleveland, and ever‘plaee, but I made it here longer than anyplace ~ 63 year. I worked on the railroad, boasint. Always had men under ~ me. When the Chesapeake and Ohio put th‘ough that extension to White Sulphur, we cut trackE th‘ough a tunnel 7~mile lone. And I handled men in ~83 when they put the C & O th‘ough 1~ere But since I was fl, I been dom‘ handy work ~ just general handy man. Used. to do a lot of carving, too1 till I broke my shoulder bone. Carved that o].‘ pipe of‘ mthe 25 year ago out of au ‘ umbrella handle ‚ and carved this monkey watch charm. 3u~t the last three year I ain‘t done much of anything. O .

	“Go to church sometimes, over here to the Corinthian Baptis‘. Church of Walnut Hills • But church ‘ t do much good nowaday. . They ‚ got too much education for church. Thia new—tangled education is juat a bunch of ignoramacy. Everybody‘s just looking for

~	a .tz‘iiag to pull to get 8omethiug not to help others. About one‘third goes to see what

~	everbody else is wearing, and ‘ s got the ni Cost clothes • And they sit back ‚ and the7
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