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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 57, 4 March 1870, Page 3

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A WFE.IAN. A correspondent of the ' Melbourne ' Herald' furnishes the following information:—lt may not be generally known that we have an old hero of "Waterloo in our midst. Corporal Knight, who was one of the raw recruits as a lad of 18 at the great battle, now lodges humbly at a little shop behind the Melbourne Club, and no doubt many of my readers nave come across him in their walks. I made his acquaintance the other day, and passed one of the most notable hours I ever did in hearing of the battle, so far as it came within his own observation. The old corporal wrote a pamphlet, or rather obtained some one to write it for him, a couple of years ago, and Tie has since subsisted upon its sale and the sixpence a day which he receives from the bounty of the Imperial Government. He wears the Waterloo medal on his breast, carefully preserved, and but little frayed, although he has carrie.d it for 5i years. The corporal wanders somewhat m his talk, and when you start him off he begins with a categorical account of his adventures in a pithy style, by which he gallops along a little too quick in his story for a hearer who likes amplification. And who wouldn't on such subjects ? "When you put a question he pulls up suddenly with a deferential, attention, and will then give you justwhat you please, and his descriptions have a freshness which it is impossible to find, in any book. When asked what would have been the result of the battle had the Prussians not come up, he paused for a moment, and then seesawed, in a peculiar manner with his hand,, saying, " "Well, it was just this way! Just on a balance. I was stationecL close by the wood in square, and when the Prussians hove in sight I turned round and said to my mate, 'There's Grouchy ; it's,all up with us.' We" thought it was the Prench. But then. I saw Blutcher ride over to Lord Wei- - lington, and when the order was given ■ to charge, we knew it was the Prussians l ... It was this way, sir. - Supposing, with all respect, you and me were to have a fight, and fight till we could not stand,, why a boy might come in and thrash the pair of us." Corporal Knight's recollections are full of bits of description which one cannot reproduce, but they are quite absorbing in their interest as he narrates them. Couldn't something be done for the old fellow ? Although always welcome at barracks,, his independence makes him to accept the assistance of the and I am afraid that he has a trouble - to make both ends meet.