A Private Ambulance

"Aniong the men wounded in my regiment at a battle in Virginia," ssiiü the old soldier, "was a rnan ia my coinpany who was shot through the I .■ (!;■ and taken to the rear. Oor troofs ï'.ï back af ter the fight, and we had ir.' r wounded than we had tiv.iif. : for, but two men out of ú cavü tCL set out to curry this inan whc rever vu were going, which was presuniably the camp bebind intrenchnients that we'd left ia the morning. "They took turns at backing him for half a mile or so until they carne to a farruhou.se that had a grassy yard ia front. They laid him down on the grass and took a little look around the house to see what they eould see. In a building at the rear they eame across something that made 'em stand still and look at each other and laugh. It was a haud cart. What use the folks here had made of it they couldn't guess, but they knew what use they were going to make of it. They got it out of the building and rolled it around the side of the house alongside the wounded man and dropped the handle on the grass. He laughed, too; when he saw it. He was going the rest of the way in a private ambulance. ' ' The two men took their blankets off their shoulders and untied them and spread their rubbers down on the bottom of the hand cart and spread their woolen blankets down on them, and then they ran the hand cart up and rested the handle on the front steps of the house and lifted in the wounded man and laid their guns in beside hirn. Then they turned the cart around again, and one man got inside the shafts, with the crosspiece aganst his waist bolt, and the other man got behind to push. They all smiled again when they started, wounded man and all. "It beat backing him out of sight. It was dry weather, and the roads were sandy, and up hill and on the level the wheeling was hard. But there was more down hill than there was up, places whare they had to hold back, and it was all irumensely more comfortable for the wounded man, and so they got him back to camp and to the surgeon again. But he died af ter all."