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FREAK OF NATURE.--The following ext ract
from letter of the noted Capt. Iobin, on the Rio
Grande, dated Oct. IL, 1917 contains account
of an extradinary freak of Dame Nature that will
set all the Medical Philosophers crazy:


ca young gentleman from Vcksburg shipped
as soldier in the Second and, performed all his
duties admirably. He was smart dapper little
fellow, without hair on his face, in the shape of
mous,ache or whisker. There was always
Joke on his tongue and smile on. his lip. and the
men usually relieved him from such hard work as
chopping wood exc. His cheeks we're very smooth
--he was very handsome--and his nanle was Luke
Surrey. Barring size, he was the very counter
part of Luxe Sere, late deputy sheriff of New
| Orleans. The boys called him Lucy. Don't tell
Sere about it, or may be they III Lucy him. After
a while, Luke grew sallow about the gils, and his
corporation waxed rotund as an Alderman S.
| Luke was sick /; his friends advised doctor, but
| Luke said it was a dropsy, hereditary complaint
his mother had it before him. He beciime very
! intimate with an old Mexican hag, votress OF
! Lucina, and buttoned his jacket close up to his
throat. The Jacket was pigeon breasted, a nd we
| found afterwards that Luke, by hght squeezing
had contrveJ TO do what some say the OmniPo-


tent himself cam. do, viz: make two mountains


without valley between them. He grew slcker


the bag was sent for-(they call her sage femme.


Mexican for foolish woman)-and Luke soon had


a little dropsy in his arms. Mother and baoy are


as we'll as can be expected. don't know wneth'


er the bow is a lad wench, but they re gong 'e
christian him after the Commander Chief


When the Mexicans heard it,, they eJaculated
g Holv Virgin it was hard enough TO fight the


Americans when they sent them against u.s. but
when the women come, and bring lille soldiers
with them, we must be beaten.