Equally appealing and remarkable
was another letter sent to tho pension
Office in which the applicant sot forth
his claims to a pension in this wise:
Tho way I j,rot my War Ingery was a
ketchln of a hog. Th- Hoi: war wanted
by our captain for torege. We was ?
the hug and sh" crawled threw a hole
an 1 thot I Were about the size cf the hog
and tried to crawl threw, but I stuek an
In tryln to wiggle out I throde the
off an on- it hit me on my le .1 I
me aenaeleaa. I do not think the hon had
nothln to do with my line of duty, for I
did not ketch the hog. Wlch aha never
waa eaut, ko pleze send along my pi
Ono aged pensioner had evidently
made a serious blunder by taking
unto himself a wile in his old age, for
love of gain stvnis to have hoon tho
motive of the woman who married him
If tho following letter stated the facts
lu tho case:
Dear Mister Government, Pleze to lix up
my penahun papers bo aa my wife cant
draw my twelve dolera a munt when I
am iled. she say she marrynl me for lov
un to be a ole mans Darling but now I
no lt was for to git my penahun on her?
self by being my willower so plezo let
my penshun end with mo but pleze dount
let on to her that you not this from mo
or 1 would have a hot time of lt and times
la hotter now than I can stand. So when
I send word that 1 am no moar then send
her this If you want to but not until the
penshun ls shut off whltch lt ls her Just
desserts for marryln for money an In a
Mersheenary splrrut.
