You've heard of Old John Brown?
My father's farm was only an hour's march from Brown's place.

I used to see the old man, and it wasn't my fault I wasn't mixed up in some of his scrapes.

Father caught me and took me home--didn't see any reason why I should go off and get killed with a crazy man.

Didn't know Brown was going to be immortal." "There must have been a good many people that didn't know it," Sylvia responded.
She hoped that Ware would talk of himself and of the war; but in a moment his thoughts took a new direction.
"Stars are fine to-night.

It's a comfort to know they're up there all the time.