Edition - Old Ben's Story - New York Weekly edition
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Stanford Digital Repository
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New York Weekly
v. 20 no. 9 (page 8)
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Old Ben's Story
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Author:
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Henderson, Robert H.
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January 19, 1865
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There was quite a sociable party congregated around the store in Old Davidson's store in B-k H-k some years ago, but as the present war wasn't thought of then, and we had all filled our pipes for another smoke, the conversation kind of flagged, when Sam Carter broke the silence by moving that we get Old Ben Waldron, or Grizzly Ben, as he was called, to spin off one of his years. |