General Grant's Two Tunes

A drum corps in passing caught sight of the general and at ouce stnxek np a theu popular negro camp ineeting air. Every one bogau to laugh, and Rawlina cried, "öood for the drummers!" "What's the fuu?" inquired thegeueral. "Why, " was the reply, "they are playing 'Ain't I glad to get out ob de wilderness I' ' ' The general smiled at the ready wit of the musicians and said: "Well, with me a musical joke always requires explanatioii. I know only two tunes- one is 'Yankee Doodle, ' and the