Nashville (Tenn.) Patriot, March 15.
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Pun-Gent.--Nowadays our citizens are often regaled with military witticisms.
The following will rank as a good specimen: A regiment of “Feds” marching through the city is surrounded and followed by a bevy of immoderately patriotic boys, (though otherwise too harmless and amiable to attend Sabbath-school,) when the least modest of them, having heard of South-Carolina, and a few incidents in her modern history, sings out in the midst of a group of mounted officers: “Hurrah for Jeff. Davis!”
Nearest officer, having no very pleasant sensations aroused, by this vociferation, exclaims to the urchin, not altogether good-humoredly: “Hurrah for the devil, sir!”
“He! He! He!”
exploded the youngster, “well, hurrah for yer own side, and I'll holler for mine!”
Hero vanished amid a shower of unsuppressed military smiles, of the audible kind; and is soon unconscious of everything but his recompense for crying: “Here's the Nashville Patriot--only five cents!”
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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