Notes from Capt. robin's Knapsack.
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No books either for pastirne or prayer-C Cock
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SION Of BibicaI paSSaee--Accou,ts Of Ihe
battle Of Buena Fista-1hei pariiality and
mpeJec'iOns-G Gen. Wool lie Sc ec'or Of Buema
liSfa-Gen 1ayfOr--Their mutuai teelin S


Of good-~W for each other.


BUENA VISTA, May 6, 1917.
EDS. DELTA--Iou have not heard from me
for month of Sundays, as ! have no news for
you. In truth, no way of enjoying ourselves in
nocently, except in the pious ana ladylike pastime
Of rooster fighting, in which our dusky nclphbors
excel. They gaffs called "slashors,' and
sloshers they was seIuced into pi. last
week, but il was TO decide IL wager between a
''hoosier" and .sucker." concerning the Jaw
s5NCc Of the ass vita which Sampson slew The
Philistnes. | thought a cocdp pit a strange place
to look for copy Of the Bible, but they snil not
--''there were men OF all trades there, from
thmbe-rig 10 chucker-Iuck down to preaching
and praying, aud they always carried their toois
with them" The dispute was this whether the
Jaw-bone was old or new, and whether it had
originally belonged to Il jack or Il jenny. 1t was
easily decidri-


"And he found the ne1c jaw-hou of an ass.
and put forth his hand and took it, and slew a
thousand lIer herewith. "-JrGpEs, CHAP. xy
VERSE Is.


In your ncehhor. the Tropc, We read the only
mhudry account We hnvo Yet seen Of the action
of Bucna NIst,. evidently written by some zen
tirrnan master Of has SUBJECT, and as evidently as
HtIo partial TO General wool, as he is to 'our
friends the vounIccrs.' II" says, ",rhcrc were
hundreds, some say thousands, Of volunteers n;
tho rnnche,' y mile from the main field. If
there were thousands al the rauche who fought?
Most of the wounded were certainly there, with
small detail Of troops, 100 or more unprmrI team
slcrs, and 800 or 400 volunteers who dill rayos
As for General Wool, he is scarcely noticed at
all, when 1t is wei. known that the direction Of
the battle was almost entirely entrusted to him.
He examined and selected the ground as far back
as December Ftst-hc pledged himself 10 give bat.
tie there with his own command 10 any Mexican
ormy-he disposed of the troops; and was. in
tact, the executive officer. Gen. Taylors pres
ence was. to be sure, Il host IN Il>clf, and had he
been absent, we might perhaps cry


- W IA a. Itul,s