IT DID'NT BUST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1323, 9 March 1883, Page 2

IT DID'NT BUST.

.When M'Clellan reached' Malvern Hijl in |}is .retrograde • n}ove|nent jw ••■ had the Federal gunboafs at lps hack," '■ They took position in Turkey,ben'd, a. mile and a half above the Hill, and from this spot they sent their monßter shells over the federals and .into the woods where the forming. One of the shells* JMn front of a Georgia and two aides, and came roll' ■ ing to their very feet. Like lightning each of the trio threw himself flat =ou ground, rolled over once ortwhe, and Shenhi)gge,4 tjje, ground and waited They could hear the 'npuitep of t)j|j burning fuse, and the chances o! their being wiped out were ninety-nine in a hundred, In this situation one of the aides called out; ". Gentlemen, I believe secession, is wrong, and I'm sorry I'took up. arnjs,".'•' "And I know that rebellion'U--wioked, and I'm ready to resign I" groaned the other aide. -' It was thenthe General's turn to say something, and while they 'were waiting for him to'deojars himself, he suddenly, called out-^-"Get up, gentlemen, get up—the. dum thine; isn't going. W'bust; at; aU 1" \ ' tionsformed ft« tojlje numbers ppljip British Volunteer, foroe, the i-eitult oi the y©ai\ recently- qlpsed will be a Ipsa of. about 7000 men in the enrolled strength.. In Scotland aloneiit; unexpected the decrease will be quite 3000. But though the grand: total|. will : r down, the proportion' of' emuents^/frill..«. will be greater, so that the health of the volunteer systein is quite sounds