Among the heroes of the Cabul war must be ranked the drummer boy of the 93nd Highlander's, Who refused to fall out on the march to Cabul. As he was plodding wearily through the sand of the Loger "Valley an office? advised him to fall cut, but the reply came back prompt and stout, "Nae, nae, I'll nae fa' oot till I've washed my hands i' the Caspian !" The laddie's geography, it may be, was rather at fault, but his heart was right enough.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1110, 21 April 1880, Page 3
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