Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — Lost His Head, Too. [ARTICLE]

Lost His Head, Too.

When the brave Admiral Benbow was a common sailor his messmate, who was stationed with him at the same gun, lost his leg by a cannon shot. The poor fellow instantly called out to his friend Benbow, who immediately took him upon his shoulder, and began with great care to descend with him to the cockpit; but it happened that ju e t as the poor fellow's head came upon a level with the deck, another ball carried that off also. Benbow, however, knew nothing of the matter, but carried the body down to the surgeon, and. when he came to the bottom of the ladder, called out that he had brought him a patient, desiring somebne to bear a hand and h3lp him easily down. The surgeon turned about and exclaimed: “Why, what do you do here' with a man who has lost his head?” “Loot his head!” said Benbow. “The lying scoundrel, he told me it was his les: but I never believed what he said in my life without being sorry for it afterward. ”