I assented.
How little did I realize that although resembling any other
Male of twenty years, he was realy Providence?
The way it happened was in this manner. Although not
supposed to talk on trains, owing to once getting the wrong
suit-case, etcetera, one cannot very well refuse to anser if one
is merely asked about a Window. And also I pride myself on
knowing Human Nature, being seldom decieved as to whether a
gentleman or not. I gave him a steady glance, and saw that he
was one.
I then merely said to him that I hoped he intended to
enlist, because I felt that I could at least do this much for my
Native Land.
"I have already done so," he said, and sat down beside me.
He was very interesting and I think will make a good soldier,
although not handsome. He said he had been to Plattsburg the
summer before, drilling, and had not been the same since,
feeling now very ernest and only smoking three times a day. And
he was two inches smaller in the waste and three inches more in
chest. He then said:
"If some of you girls with nothing to do would only try it
you would have a new outlook on Life.
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