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elieved our old guards, the latter having been sent to Richmond. They were all tall and ungainly, and, in speaking, always said har, sar, whar and dar. Their most favorite exclamations were, tamal Jesus, and I golly. As I was thus surveying these degraded creatures, I heard one of them say: Tom, what do you always go to old Sanders's mill for? Why don't you go to Mike Adams's mill? Why, you tamal fool, was the reply, don't you know there's a good deal better clay up at old Sanders's than there is at Mike Adams's? As we were at this time under the charge of one Captain Collins, who was more indulgent than any of our previous keepers, we were allowed to converse with the guards. I resolved to settle this matter of clay-eating. So I asked one of the fellows to whom I have just referred, what his comrade wanted with the clay that he got at the mill. Why, tarnal J-s, retorted the repulsive brute, and don't you know nothin‘? He wanted it to eat, I golly! Reader