Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — Highly Probable. [ARTICLE]

Highly Probable.

In a small town of Nonkhern New Hampshire there lives one man who Is fond of telling thrilling tales of battle and bloodshed In which he was Immediately concerned during the civil war. The valor which he represents himself as having displayed jn those trying times was of a very high order. “Well, now, thefe 1 * one thing I should really like to know,” said one of the nelghlmrs of this retired warrior, after forming one of a group who had listened to a particularly lpcredible tale of hts old friend’s prowess, “I should really like to know how many of them gray-coated fellers Hiram did actually and of a fact make away with, and as It were, kill.” “I don’t know for certain,” spoke up another neighbor, who was of a skeptical turn of mind, "but It appears to me that when you come right down to hard pan, Illram probably killed Just about as many of them as they did of him!"