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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 296 (search)
utting it off nearly as square as though it had been done with a saw, Being among the first who entered the rebel fortifications, I discovered a barrel which proved to contain apple-brandy. Pulling out the corn-cob from the bunghole, I turned it up and filled a canteen. While doing this, one of Bob McCook's skirmishers came in, and says: Vat you gets there? I replied that it appeared to be pretty fair apple-brandy; upon which the Dutchman ran to the door, calling out furiously: Hans! Heinrich! Schnapps! See, come arous! Upon which a dozen Dutchmen came in, and the brandy which was not spilled upon the ground, was soon transferred to their canteens. I said: Boys, you had better look out — this is a doctor's shop, and there may be strychnine in that brandy. They paused a moment to look at each other, when one of them exclaimed, Py Got, Hans, I tells you vat I do; I trinks some, and if it don't kill me, den you trinks --upon which he took a long and hearty pull at his canteen, a