EVERY MAN A GENERAL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 157, 2 June 1900, Page 3

EVERY MAN A GENERAL.

Men wore mostly boots in those days. Officers and men alike wore tbo heavy, thick-soled am munition boDfca ; till b A lost fchoir ca ! ves, and thought it little good in adversismg for th}m. The close fo'd.rg, universal puttees b?trayel only too faitbfu'ly the outline of the shrunken shanks, whnh in turn threw into greater contrast the imposing magnitude of the boot below. Where were all the style and superb finish of the! .British Army now 't

Goqg, and the Greatest exqni^te m the service troubled his bcai! not a bit about it. Its deeds and u ->t diess tti'G its glory now. It is tu-i diiy of aciion, not of api eartirces. 1 haw one Tommy licit at the fcov/oshi|s and pick up an old boot, examine it. r then take oif his own, the sole 01 which v. 'V> held co the upper by riuo&. The deivhct- of the dusfbOiip vas olj.iousb/ thp o('i,t"(>i. of the l-\ fj. ][r \,vi it on and we ug lu^i v. si/ t I'i^ht '1 itt Grilles oul&ido ! u i'> asi^n , u'i' JLv\>i' somyt.imos, why the tj.iii'i^oii is so lnacuve, why wo d,> not cuish out ii[} u n tlierdi! 1 oh the enoniy, link Ld,'iub w'tli Builei, «md bo Uoihiiate the lolit-f. ])ut wo are p. si, the povvbr of vo. !\in^ („>t oar own salvaiioo, save by patunfc waiting.