A BRAVE BOY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1083, 2 March 1883, Page 3

A BRAVE BOY.

In the French army the bugler of the 18 battle of Tolel-Kobir, would-hove- ruceimid.., _ the cruse and bugle of honour. . . This youngster, a mure lad, was breaet to fireast with Major Hart at the hea 1 of the attacking force. Turning as he scrambled up the face of the works, to sound the charging call, a hostile rifle butt came down on his head, and ho tumbled back into the ditch. He staggered to his feet, picked up his bugle and followed the red wave which had rolled by during his disaster. He got to the front, while the rank and file were treacing the foe to the coy steel, according to the prescription of Sir Garnet Wolseley. Here he raised .a'brazen note, lint in the midst of it He/ wils bayoneted in the shoulder by a Nubian. The Irish boy had lost biS'Bwnrd in bis fall, but,be held bis bugle in bis fist, and with this he joined battle with his black antagonist, whom he put flown in no ;ime with that “ point of war ” calle I in Ireland “ a hand and foot.” Tuen standing over the prostrate captive he blew a triumphant blast. The perfoiniance is related by Lien tenant Dlummond Wo'ff, who adds in bis letter' that the drollery of the performance set the soldiers laughing even in the > ery. thick of the carnage. The feat had more humour and not less valour in it than that of the French, drummer at the battle of the Pyramids, who had his right hand slashed off by a horseman of Che desert, but kept hammering at a sheepskin with his left. Exchange.