Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — Fooling the Old Soldier. [ARTICLE]

Fooling the Old Soldier.

It is a touching thing to see an old soldier hurry up to get around the corner when he hears a bugle call that is familiar to him. The bugle call excites him, and he pricks up his ears and hurries, limping may be, anxious to see what is going on around the corner. The bugle rings out the “assembly,” for instance, and the old soldier thinks there is a cavalry company forming around the corner, and he will be there to see if they get into position correctly. He comes up puffing, his old lame leg a little tired, takes off his hat and wipes the perspiration off his brow and looks for the soldiers. When he sees that the bugle call came from a perambulating waffle peddler he would tick himself if his old leg was not lame. What connection there is between an army bugle and a waffle wagon is a mystery. It is cruel to fool old soldiers by playing a cavalry call to collect hungry people around a waffle wagon.— Peck’s Sun.