Widowhood


During the parade at the last encampment of the G.A.R., a woman in the

crowd of spectators made herself not only conspicuous, but rather a

nuisance by the way she carried on. She waved a flag with such vigor as

to endanger the bystanders and yelled to deafen them. An annoyed man in

the crowd after politely requesting her to moderate her enthusiasm,

quite without effect, bluntly told her to shut up.



"Shut up yourself!" she retorted in high indignation. "If you had buried

two husbands who had served in the war, you would be hurrahing, too."



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