In Winter Quarters 



the boy cautiously peered in through 

 the window-slats, and made one of his 

 first great discoveries. A Governor was 

 "nothing but a man." He was really 

 disappointed, as well as more or less 

 disgusted, and promptly so informed 

 his mother. 



The fact is he had not been given any 

 information upon the subject. It had 

 been taken for granted that any child 

 would know without telling what a 

 Governor was, but unfortunately this 

 one didn't. He had not the remotest 

 idea as to whether it had two wheels 

 or six. Or whether it walked or 

 crawled. Anyhow, he found out, at 

 least about this particular one, and this 

 is what happened: The Governor and 

 the father were great friends. The 

 guest stayed all night, and the last 

 thing the boy remembered when sent 

 to bed was hearing them threshing out 

 the Civil War. Next morning he was 

 invited to go to town with them, and 

 was taken to the store where the little 



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