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Indian Lives and Anecdotes ca. 1886 - 1941 part 3
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| + | He went during the war time with William Strickland to enlist as a substitute. He had been well primed before the time and on entering the office (with a fig drum[?] on his head) he proposed to enlist for colonel. They informed him that they had plenty of colonels. Then he saw a man in the office who had lost a foot. He asked how the man lost it and was told that it was taken off by a shell. "Spose me go to way [struck through] war, maybe me lose our foot; what good money it done us then?" And he flatly refused to enlist. But on becoming sober he imagined that he had enlisted, came out and bade an affectionate farewell to the haying crew "Good by Mis'r French! Good by Net! Good by Maury! Me sojer man now, mus' go war, me sojer man." After this he left for Quoddy and staid until the war was over | ||
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| + | At one time he had been owing father and father trusteed his wages. The wages had been already assigned to John Tabor Davis and there were three trustees on them already, but the others were made before the wages had | ||
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Sebattis Solomon -
He went during the war time with William Strickland to enlist as a substitute. He had been well primed before the time and on entering the office (with a fig drum[?] on his head) he proposed to enlist for colonel. They informed him that they had plenty of colonels. Then he saw a man in the office who had lost a foot. He asked how the man lost it and was told that it was taken off by a shell. "Spose me go to way [struck through] war, maybe me lose our foot; what good money it done us then?" And he flatly refused to enlist. But on becoming sober he imagined that he had enlisted, came out and bade an affectionate farewell to the haying crew "Good by Mis'r French! Good by Net! Good by Maury! Me sojer man now, mus' go war, me sojer man." After this he left for Quoddy and staid until the war was over
At one time he had been owing father and father trusteed his wages. The wages had been already assigned to John Tabor Davis and there were three trustees on them already, but the others were made before the wages had