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I came down the channel in face of the pretended fisherman; and, though the riptyles have set up the poor wretch with art, it was not ingenious enough to take in a practysed eye. The rod was held too high, for the 55th have learned to fish at Oswego, if they never knew how before; and then the man was too quiet for one who got neither prey nor bite.
A hymn was sung, a portion of the 55th chapter of Isaiah read, another prayer offered up, and the preacher commenced his Sermon. He took for his text a portion of the 36th verse of the 9th chapter of Matthew "He was moved with compassion." At the outset he sketched, with rapid eloquence, the history of Jesus Christ.
Such was the terrible ending of the 55th Native Infantry; a signal and, as it proved, a most effective warning, the results of which were felt over the whole of the north-west corner of India. A distressing and pathetic tragedy resulted from the mutiny of this regiment.
My feelings on leaving "Wipers" behind me can best be expressed in the words which a poet of the 55th Division dedicated to the British Soldier in the second number of Sub Rosa: "Good-bye, Wipers! though I 'opes it is for good, It 'urts me for to leave yer I little thought it would. When I gets back to Blighty, and all the fightin's done, Mebbe the picters of the past will rise up, one by one.
The 55th William I. secured to freemen the inheritance of their lands, and they were not able to sell them until the act QUIA EMPTORES of Edward I. was passed. The tendency of persons to spend the representative value of their lands and sell them was checked by the Mosaic law, which did not allow any man to despoil his children of their inheritance.
The 55th, another corps on which much reliance was placed, was also put at the head of another column.
"But will your daughter be as likely to admire a green hunting-shirt, such as that our worthy guide wears, with a fox-skin cap, as the smart uniform of the 55th?" "Perhaps not, sir; and therefore she will have the merit of self-denial, which always makes a young woman wiser and better."
This brought results, and I entered the city under escort of a dozen horsemen, their green coats faced with dingy white, cocked hats flapping as they rode. It was thus we came to Callowhill, and the encampment of British grenadiers, an officer of the 55th Regiment volunteering to guide me to Howe's quarters in High Street.
He is major of the 55th, and may command his men to wheel and march about as he pleases; but he cannot compel me to wed the greatest or the meanest of his mess. Besides, what can you know of Lundie's wishes on such a subject?" "From Lundie's own mouth. The Sergeant had told him that he wished me for a son-in-law; and the Major, being an old and a true friend, conversed with me on the subject.
You've relations in both callings, and ought to be able to answer." "But uncle, I mean human nature." "So do I, girl; the human nature of a seaman, and the human nature of one of these fellows of the 55th, not even excepting your own father. Here have they had a shooting-match target-firing I should call it this day, and what a different thing has it been from a target-firing afloat!
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