We're none too many here yet, and a gintleman and his family are always welcome among gintlemen.

Allow me, sir, to presint me friend Captain Franklin, Captain Ned Franklin of the--th' Illinois in the late unplisantness .-- Ned, me boy, Colonel--ye'll pardon me not knowin' the name ?" "My name is Buford, sir," said the other as he rose.

"I am very glad to see you gentlemen.

Colonel Battersleigh, Captain Franklin.

I was so unlucky as to be of the Kentucky troops, sir, in the same unpleasantness.