LINKS WITH THE PAST.
A commander, whose nam- appears in the Navy Lists of Queen Victoria, knew intimately in his youth a soldier who had been encamped on Hounslow Heath in the Revolution of 1688, and who played in the band at Queen Anne's Coronation. Enough cases of the kind might be quoted! to fill a book (writes "A__." in "St. James's G__efcte"). But none of them is quite'so remarkable as that of tie man who, alive in 1847, was told by his f-tber that he had frequently se_a a main Who heard a witness give evidence to th. effect that, as a boy, he had been employed in carrying arrow- up toe hill before the _ab(_e of Fiodden Field! More things are possible in real life than this warM dreams of, and the ages, after all, axe short and fieetin_ things. There is a nobleman still in Parliament whose fat&er talked to a man who walked down Wi_tehall when King Charles's head was being cut off.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11488, 22 January 1903, Page 5
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167LINKS WITH THE PAST. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11488, 22 January 1903, Page 5
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