Observations of a Retired Veteran

Excerpt

The essays contained in this little book comprise a selection from many of a like character which were contributed at intervals through a series of years to the columns of the VINDICATOR, a weekly newspaper of Staunton, Virginia, by its editor, the late Henry C. Tinsley, under the pen-name of “P.  Boyzy.”  The perusal of them in their present form will serve to confirm the opinion of those who read them as they then appeared, that they possess in marked degree the unusual quality of a winning humor coupled with the pathos that is often humor’s most exquisite accompaniment; and that they combine a shrewd if homely wit with a profound knowledge of the workings of the human heart.