A STORY OF COLONEL BURNABY.
Here's a characteristic etory of the late Colonel Burnaby. Bon eamarade as he was out of his regimentals, he was a martinet of martinets on parade. It was a habit of his to wear his helmet, not in the orthodox fashion, tipped over his eyes, but set well back on his head. One of his troopers took a fancy to intimate the colonel, and appeared on parade one morning with his helmet " all anyhow. , ' "Your helmet, sir,! Put it on rightly," thundered the colonel, who had observed the delinquent in a twinkling, Tho next day the trooper again appeared on parade with his helmet, cocked defiantly on the back of his head. The colonel at once ordered him under arrest, and gave him some slight punishment. Shortly afterwards the trooper left the service, aud in the street one day he was met by his former colonel ." Hallo, B ! How are you !" said Burnaby. "Getting on well That's right. Here"—slipping a£s note into the man's hand—" put this in your pocket. Go and buy yourself a hat, and —wear it how you like, l'J.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2486, 16 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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188A STORY OF COLONEL BURNABY. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2486, 16 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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