Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — A Bit of a Tale from the South. [ARTICLE]

A Bit of a Tale from the South.

Billy Makone is an irritable man, and has the thinnest legs in the world outside of an anatomical museum. One cold, blustery morning in December, 1864, his tent was pitched on a bleak Virginia hillside. He was indulging in a morning nap when Uncle Davie, his negro body servant, tiptoed in, stumbled over' something, knocked over the General’s cot and spilled him on the ground. Springing to his feet the irate General grabbed a sword and gave chase to the flying Davie. The darky jumped a fence, and feeling safe, turned to the General, whose shirt "was flapping in the breeze, and yelled: “Good God, Massa William, you ain’t trustin’ you’self in dis wind on dem legs, is you ?”