John Paul's book- moral and instructive- consisting of travels, tales, poetry, and like fabrications (1874) (14774202181)

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Title: John Paul's book: moral and instructive: consisting of travels, tales, poetry, and like fabrications
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Paul, John, 1834-1905
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Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Chicago, Ill. : Columbian Book Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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it pleasant to land a trout in a tree, and have toclimb for your lish as though you were bird-nesting. Noris it conducive to serenity of spirit in throwing your hookupon the waters, to have it first take effect in the lower cornerof your own eyelid ; and it can scarcely be called encour-aging to have an immense mosquito and a large trout biteat the same time. They divide your attention, and the chancesare that both get away. Those who go into the woodsbefore the first frost, will find it an excellent plan to arrangea mosquito net around the rim of their hats, allowing the endsto fall over the shoulders, and gathering it slightly aboutthe neck. With the aid of this and India rubber gloves youcan trout quite comfortably even in June. Perhaps youve never heard the story of the Georgia col-onels ? If not, Ill tell it you, for it will at least tit in betweenthe cheese and the pear. In the Mexican war, Georgia thought shed raise a regi-ment, and did—but every man in it was a colonel. They
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A REGIMENT OF GEORGIA COLONELS. G09 tossed np coppers all round to decide who should have com-mand, and started off to reinforce Scott. Previous to march-ing, they consulted Hardee s Tactics and found that thesoldier was directed to march with his left foot foremost.So what did my precious regiment of colonels do, hut goskating in that fashion all the way from Georgia to Mexico,shoving the left foot forward and dragging the right oneafter it! For a hand, they had sixty of the best fiddlers that theplantations of the state afforded. Scott was drilling his men by brigades, when he saw atremendous cloud of dust in the distance, which seemed toherald the coming of an army terrible with bummei-s. Order-ing his batteries into position and his brigades into line, hegalloped off with his staff to see what the matter was. What the devil are you, where do you come from, andwliere are you going to ? he shouted, as soon as within hail-ing distance. Georgia regiment of Georgia colonels, General, t