ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 295 



While we are letting no guilty man escape, our host, 

 Henry Eveland, must not be forgotten. Henry is hale, 

 hearty, heroic, and happy, but in the good old days that 

 I have been talking about how we came very near losing 

 him. It was a hot night in August. The corn was just 

 ready to tassel out, with black-green leaves, and the old 

 settlers rejoiced that if it was a hot night and bad for man 

 and beast it was "at least good for the corn." Henry 

 went to bed after a hard day's work in the sweltering 

 heat. But, although his conscience did not trouble him, he 

 could not sleep. It was too hot. He tried that old resort 

 of a melting man: divested himself of all his clothing, 

 like a second Adam, and went to sleep in the barn. The 

 experiment was successful, but no sooner had he got to 

 sleep than Joe Morris waked him up with the announce- 

 ment that the cornfield was full of cattle. 



Henry was always a careless man about his toilet and 

 on this occasion he forgot it altogether and with the 

 speed of a racer at the Olympic games he was in the field 

 after the cattle, racing and chasing the festive steers 

 from side to side, until, finally, they were got out and the 

 fence put up. But now comes the saddest part of this 

 tale of woe of old times. Corn leaves cut like saws and 

 knife blades and this unfortunate old settler made the 

 discovery that he was literally cut to pieces. He was 

 bandaged in fine linen and linseed oil and laid away to 

 dry, and with proper nursing fully recovered. At this 

 period of time it is safe to speak to him about it, but I 

 should not have taken so great a risk in 1860. Shall I 

 again call on the "affidavit sergeant"? 



You must pardon me for imparting so much of local 

 flavor to my address today. Surrounded by these old 

 friends I could not help it. For thirty-two years my 

 heart has turned to this spot. There are no songs like 

 the old songs ; no friends like the old friends. And there 



