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Old October 4, 2014, 03:36 PM   #421
4V50 Gary
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Jerry on one occasion came into the Colonel's tent very early in the morning with a very indignant face. When the Colonel inquired the matter he exclaimed, "Matter enough, Colonel; devil of a n**** kin I get to take keer of the horses besides meself." Jerry was an ardent Democrat and hated the negroes. He pretended to be a great traveler and to have been in many places over the world. The Colonel one day prevailed upon him to give an account of himself in detail and state the time that he had remained in each place. When the Colonel footed the figures, Jerry had made himself out 146 years old. When Jerry took a drink his toast was, "Here's to the officers and men of the Seventy Sixth Regiment, and may the American Age frown upon the Quain of Angland any time at all."
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