"NANNY" IN THE TRENCHES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 February 1915, Page 3

"NANNY" IN THE TRENCHES.

■—♦— It was u wliito goat, and , it came tiotting up one ovoning to one of the French trenches. A whilholm Paris streot hawker ofFored it a pioce of biscuit, and it jumped into the trench and made itself at homo. The oamelofc baptised it the "Infinniere Major," because ho said it reminded him of a Red Cross nurse who had tended him and was "thin, distinguished and geiitlo." Nanny had her daily rations of biscuit, bread potatoes and carrots, and repaid her new-found friends a hundredfold by supplying them with fresh milk.. One poor fellow, wounded severely by a shell, was kept alive for Forty-eight hours, thanks to Nanny, until he roil Id be taken to the rear Nanny was absolutely fearless. .She paid ii'D attention to bullets or shells She was known to Tiavo only one vice; she would chew tobacco like a jackta.r—British tobacco for preference. At dusk she would stroll out to browse a few tufts 6f grass. This proved her undoing. One evening she strayed too near the "Roches," and a bullet laid her low, The grieving French Tommies saw her make one or two efforts to drag herself along. Then she laid still. "The Tnfirmiere Major" was dead. An hour or two later the "Bochee" left their trench to seize their prey. "With a yell of rage Nanny's friends fixed 'bayonets and charged, driving tho Germans helter-skelter back to their trenches with the loss of twelve of thoir number. Then Nanny was carried homo and buried in French soil.