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nt first. I then advanced to seize Mrs. Brown, but she charged with the tent-pole, and as the four men were engaged in carrying off the sergeant, who resisted desperately, and called lustily to Mrs. Brown for assistance, I was forced to beat a hasty retreat and seek reinforcements, at the same time feeling a very unpleasant tingling sensation across my shoulders from a blow Mrs. Brown had administered with her stick. Being reinforced by several more men, we surrounded the enemy, and she surrendered at discretion, and was put under guard in the middle of the parade ground with her affectionate spouse. Then ensued a scene which almost beggars description. _Mrs. B._ O Brown, ye cowardly spalpeen! to stand by and see yer wife abused in sich a manner! _Mr. B._ Now, honey, be aisy, can't ye? Shure I was tied before they took ye. _Mrs. B._ Shure it was meself that riz ye up out ov the streets, and give ye six hundred dollars that I had in bank, and made a gintleman ov ye; and now ye wouldn't rize yer hand to protect me! Here Mrs. Brown again became very angry, and would have given her lord a good drubbing, if the guard had not interfered and separated them. Mrs. Brown became so furious that the colonel heard the disturbance, and walked down from his quarters to see what it meant. She immediately demanded to be released, but this the colonel refused; and she then cited many illustrious military men who had been tyrants in some cases, but never so daring as to put a woman under arrest. _Mrs. B._ Now, Colonel, I want to tell ye a thing or two. Gineral Washington, nor the Duke of Willington, nor Napoleon niver put a woman under guard, nor ye haven't any right to do it; and I'll have ye court-martialed, accordin' to the Articles of War. So I will. _Colonel._ Mrs. Brown, if you do not be quiet I will gag you. _Mrs. B._ Ye'll gag me, will ye? Well, I'd like to see ye about it. Ye would make a nice reputation to yerself, gaggin' a woman! _Colonel._ Very well, Mrs. Brown, I will show you that I am in earnest. Sergeant, place a gag in that woman's mouth. _Mrs. B._ Och, Colonel dear, ye wouldn't be so bad as that, would ye? Shure, Colonel, I'll be jist as quiet as a lamb. So I will. _Colonel._ Well, Mrs. Brown, if you will promise to behave yourself I will not gag you; but you must not make any more noise. Mrs. Brown promised obedience and was soon after released, and went to her tent to search for the precious j
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