General Horace Porter told the following:
"In the mountains of New Hampshire I met one of the colored troops, who was still fighting nobly, driving a stage on a county route, and asked him, 'What is your name?'
"'George Washington, sah.'
"I said: 'That is a name that is well known to everybody in this country.'
"'I reckon, sah, it ought to be. I'se been drivin' heah evah since da wah.'"
HE COULD CURE IT
Dr. William Osler, of Johns Hopkins and Oxford, tells this story:
An old darky quack, well known in a certain section of the South, was passing the house of a planter whose wife was reported to be dangerously ill. Stopping at the gate he called to one of the hands:
"I say, Rastus, how's the missus?"
"Well," replied Rastus, "the doctah done say dis mawnin' dat she convalescent."