WHAT AILED THE DRUMMER.
(Chambers' Journal)." Captain Bugbee was not only an officer but a soldier, and agbod one two; notable as a strict diaoiplihariani and ai notable for his fondness'for creature com-. . forts—a fondness he found great .difficulty in indluging in when marching through a wild bit of country. Oneday tbecolumn had just left a small hamlet, when the Captain noticed that one of the drumi / gave forth no sound. He expressed his Y anger very emphatically, and ordered a -A lieutenant to go and rate the delinquent well. By and bye the subaltern returned, .-, and whispered to his superior that the drummer had got two roasted ohickeni and two bottles of whisky in his drumone bottle and one chicken being for the Captain. "Why didn't the poor fellow let us know his legs had given out ?" cried Bugbee; " I don't want men to march if their dead lame. Put him in the ambulance immediately. The order was obeyed, and, having made'amendi for his injustice to the drummer, the Captain took the earliest opportunity of going to examine more particularly into his com dition.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 578, 25 September 1880, Page 2
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185WHAT AILED THE DRUMMER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 578, 25 September 1880, Page 2
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