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Mr Dinwiddie came back with a business step I looked up, but

I would not fear He laid a pile of letters and papers before

papa, and then sat down to the consideration of so at hoood deal, since our last advices"

"What? I a about it"

"Yes," said Mr Dinwiddie "You want me to save you the

trouble?"

"If it is no trouble to you"

"The news is of several advantages gained by the Yankees"

"That won't last," said papa "But there are always

fluctuations in these things"

"Back in March," Mr Dinwiddie went on, "there are reported

two engagements in which our troops came off second best - at

Newhern and at Winchester It is difficult perhaps to know the

exact truth - the papers on the two sides hold such different

language But the sixth of April there was a furious battle at

Pittsburg Landing, our ard, Polk and

Sidney Johnston, when our ot the better very decidedly;

the next day ca reinforcement of the enemy

under Grant and others, and took back the fortune of war into

their own hands, it seems"

"Perhaps that is doubtful too," observed ard asked permission to bury his dead"

"Many killed?" asked ed, and fierce

fighting"

So they can do it, I said to

"There will be of course, some variation of success," saidall to one side, in these last news,"

said Mr Dinwiddie