Skeletons
“I was never much of a fiction reader. Billy Herndon was always trying to get me to read this and that, and I think I took a secret pleasure in not accommodating him.
But this Dickens fellow was all right, and I remember Billy reading those words to me sometime early in 1860 or so, just before the war started. Though it seemed to me, as things went on, that we were getting more of the worst and very little of the best.
Those words seem more appropriate these days.
Madness is what I first thought we were in the middle of. Seemed the whole world was plagued like mad dogs. There was a summer back in Indiana when I remember rabies sweeping through; seemed every other critter caught it. We did more hunting and less food eating that year than ever in my life, and I got purely tired of the taste of vegetables. One of the better things about the Confederacy during the war was that they had most of the vegetables, and so had to eat most of 'em.
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