Refusing To Be Buried

The Chíittanooga Itebel gives currenoy to the following story : ■" As one of the hospital wagons was prooeeding slowly towards the grayeyard, (tho other day) vyith a load of coffins, the driver was disturben fa lis ,:hn:i. fh was whistllng 'Dixie' to thó' tiific "uf ""the dead rruirch) by a talsle in lus rear. IIo turaed and lookod in some treiiidation upon the long, narrow boxcs. Rap ! rap ! The rejos feil rom bis hands. TÍiump 1 thumpl Then rr yoioe cried out - ' Ha'Io ! ho there! The driver was sorely frighteued, and replied what's the matter? Cati't you rest quietly and penceably? What's the use of takin' it so hard for?' Bat I ara oot dead!' returncd the voiec, niakiug a desperate effort, and wreaphing out two screws f rom the lid. ' The devil, you say ! ' ' No, Pip not ; let me out of tlii.s. 'üh, go 'long. You'd botter be quiet, we'U be thare prtisently.' ' Be toheref 'Why, to the grave.' Annthcr prodig:ous plunge, and thrce more gerdws out. The lid bj this time vv:is half off, and one arm and part of a lea protruiod.- 'Oh, L-ird ! ' roared the terriSed driver, 'dou't, they'U lav the whole of it to rn.' 'Well, lot me "out ther,.' ïhe driver crijejied ijis whip, and the hofses dashed fofwiird, si;.] affaj went the dead and the semi-dead, ..nd the wofildn't be dead atall, at a gallop, the eöffin of the obsiruperdus corps creaking, and rocking to and iVo. and the voice of ita ir.mate eryin, ' 'Wait till [ get out o' here, aud ïf I don't give you !' At length the gravtiyard; was reaqjjgd, vvhere the poor fellow was relióvea iy the wörkmen&nd sextoBSh. present. Hé was full of fig'ht, aud swore roundly againt the ' darn'd riscal that wauted to bury him dead or alive,' but c:i explanutiou iind exp.istulation, he agreed to be paeified, and roda back to town sittirig upright in liis own, ootEn. Ilo is now well and will join hÍ3 eommand Ln a few dnys."