"THE HORRORS OF WAR."

Kumara Times, Issue 799, 23 April 1879, Page 2

"THE HORRORS OF WAR."

There is a good story current in connection with the late Invercargill Review, the humour of which is too rich to be allowed to sink into oblivion without a passing notice. Several members of a certain Dunedin corps were billeted in a hotel, the sign of -which shall be nameless. A joint of meat was served up at mess the first day, which struck the men as not being particularly fresh, and accordingly very little was partaken of. The same joint was placed on the table the following day, but met with no patronage, in consequence of some of those who had of it the previous day having become unwell. Rapacious Boniface served it up for the third time, but the long-suffering warriors were exasperated, and determined to consign the meat—which, by-the-l>ye, was more alive than dead—to its last resting place. Grimly and sternly the object whs placed in a winding sheet, and a band, playing the "Dead March in Saul," followed by a number of m-n from other corps .who had heard of the affair, conveyed it to a quiet spot, and, with all military honours, interred it. Getting rid of such a tough customer had such a lively effect upon the procession that it marched through the town with hauners flying, the band striking up "The girl I left behind me." Before the Volunteers left Invercargill a resurrection took place under cover of night, and the next morning the citizens of Invercai-gill were greeted with the unusual of a joint of living beef strung up on a flagstaff on one of the principal buddings in Tay street. The feelings of the landlord "on perceiving it can be better imagined than described.—Otago Daily Times.