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Updated: June 19, 2025
They had been forced to abandon their homes and their professions, and yet during the whole length of the war they found no higher duty to do for France than sweep out a barrack-yard or clean out a military latrine.
Louis Napoleon, whose fate it was never to be ready, was not prompt even on this occasion; he was finishing two letters to his mother. One was to be sent to her at once if he succeeded, the other if he failed. On entering the barrack-yard he found the soldiers waiting, drawn up in line. He wore an artillery uniform. A cheer rose from the line.
'Yours, Puddock, not mine, said Devereux. 'I haven't paid a tailor these six years. But, hang it, let's get on. So, in they walked by the barrack-yard, lighted up now with a splendid red blaze of torches, and with different emotions, entered the already crowded ball-room.
You are certainly young for buglers for service work; however, I will go across with you to the orderly-room, and hear what the colonel says." Crossing the barrack-yard, they found the colonel was in and disengaged. "Colonel Tritton," Captain Manley said, "these lads want to enlist as buglers." The colonel looked up and smiled. "They look regular young pickles," he said.
Before long we heard the clatter of horses' hoofs and the rattle of steel scabbards, and I looked out at the squadrons defiling into the barrack-yard. My eye fell upon Livingstone at once: it was not difficult to distinguish him, for few, if any, among those troopers, picked from the flower of all the counties north of the Humber, could compare with him for length of limb and breadth of shoulder.
Men and boys who had peeped through chinks or over walls into the barrack-yard returned with accounts of its being the most flashing affair conceivable; accoutrements and weapons glistening like stars here, there, around yet all by rule and compass. So she said mildly what she felt strongly. "Yes; I should like to see it very much." "And so you shall; you shall see me go through it." "No! How?"
The colonel, as soon as he found himself in his own quarters, gave immediate orders that the gun should be wheeled round to the barrack-yard gate, which had hitherto been kept closed, and that the moment the gates could be got open it should be fired on the crowd. These gates faced directly into the square, and the destruction caused by one shot would have been tremendous.
Ten minutes after his arrival at the camp every soldier was in his place ready to strike, and so remained all night, with pickets thrown far out listening with ears attent for the soft pad of moccasined feet. It was still early morning when Cameron rode into the barrack-yard at Fort Calgary.
Three days before starting they had met Captain Manley in the barrack-yard, and after saluting, Tom said, "If you please, sir, we wanted to ask you a question." "What is that, lads?" "If you please, sir, we understand that the boys of the band have their bags carried for them, but the company buglers carry knapsacks, like the men?" "Yes, boys; the company buglers carry knapsacks and muskets."
After a time I recovered my recollection, and when I did so, I sprang away from the servants who had been supporting me, and with my hair flying in the wind, and my face and dress streaming with blood, I ran across the barrack-yard to the colonel's house, and entering the room in which she was sitting with her sister, sank at her feet, choking with the blood which poured out of my mouth.
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