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commenced, and the ordinary routine began. Ii. There is a French proverb which declares that although you may know when you set out on a journey, you do not know when you will arrive. Those who journey through the fine land of memory are, of all travellers, the most ignorant upon that score, and are apt to become the most unconscionable vagarists. Memory refuses to recall one scene or incident without recalling also a hundred others which preceded or followed it. You people, said John Randolph to a gentleman of an extensive clan, with which the eccentric orator was always at war, you people all take up each other's quarrels. You are worse than a pile of fishhooks. If I try to grasp one, I raise the whole bunch. To end my preface, and come to my little incident. I was sitting on my horse near General Stuart, who had put in the skirmishers, and was now superintending the fire of his artillery, when a cavalry-man rode up and reported that they had just captured a deserter.