“And should have remarked before,
That I was with Grant—Ulysses, I mean—
In the great American war.”
Then McDougal spake him never a word,
But beat, with his fist, full sore
The stranger who’d been with Ulysses Grant,
In the great American war.
Jon Duan, 1874.
Plain Language from Truthful Robert.
(With Apologies to Bret Harte’s “Truthful James.”)