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MRS. NORTH. "How about the Alabama, you wicked old man?" MRS. SOUTH:
"Where's my rams? Take back your precious consols--there!!" "Punch" had
a good deal of fun with old John before it was through with him, but,
as the Confederate privateer Alabama was sent beneath the waves of the
ocean at Cherbourg by the Kearsarge, and Mrs. South had no need for any
more rams, John got out of the difficulty without personal injury. It
was a tight squeeze, though, for Mrs. North was in a fighting humor, and
prepared to scratch or pull hair. The fact that the privateer Alabama,
built at an English shipyard and manned almost entirely by English
sailors, had managed to do about $10,000,000 worth of damage to United
States commerce, was enough to make any one angry.

DAYS OF GLADNESS PAST.

After the war was well on, a patriot woman of the West urged President
Lincoln to make hospitals at the North where the sick from the Army of
the Mississippi could revive in a more bracing air. Among other reasons,
she said, feelingly: "If you grant my petition, you will be glad as long
as you live."

With a look of sadness impossible to describe, the President said:

"I shall never be glad any more."

WOULDN'T TAKE THE MONEY.

Lincoln always regarded himself as the friend and protector of
unfortunate clients, and such he would never press for pay for his
services. A client named Cogdal was unfortunate in business, and gave a
note in settlement of legal fees. Soon afterward he met with an accident
by which he lost a hand. Meeting Lincoln some time after on the steps of
the State-House, the kind lawyer asked him how he was getting along.

"Badly enough," replied Cogdal; "I am both broken up in business and
crippled." Then he added, "I have been thinking about that note of
yours."

Lincoln, who had probably known all about Cogdal's troubles, and had
prepared himself for the meeting, took out his pocket-book, and saying,
with a laugh, "Well, you needn't think any more about it," handed him
the note.

Cogdal protesting, Lincoln said, "Even if you had the money, I would not
take it," and hurried away.

GRANT HELD ON ALL THE TIME.

(Dispatch to General Grant, August 17th, 1864.)

"I have seen your dispatch expressing your unwillingness to break your
hold where you are. Neither am I willing.

"Hold on with a bulldog grip."

CHEWED THE CUD IN SOLITUDE.