Reader, you should have seen how that old railroad did flop over, and how the darkies did sweat, and how the perfume did fill the atmosphere.
But there were some Yankee soldiers in a block-house at Ringgold Gap, who thought they would act big.

They said that Sherman had told them not to come out of that block-house, any how.

But General William B.Bate begun to persuade the gentlemen, by sending a few four-pound parrot "feelers." Ah! those _feelers_! They persuaded eloquently.

They persuaded effectually--those feelers did.

The Yanks soon surrendered.