PEACE.

Bush Advocate, Volume II, Issue 86, 22 November 1888, Page 2

PEACE.

■__ — »■ ' ••• •■ On June 17th, 1775, a British man-of-war lying in Mystic Kiver threw a cannon ball at a little American army intrenched on Bunkers Hill. The "ship threw more than one ball, but this particular one was picked up after the fight and saved. The other day at ,th£ 250 th anniversary of the Bos£dn. Anoient and Honourable Artillery Company, this veritable ball- was returned to a party- of British artillery who had come over to help., celebrate the occasion. The pro- ■ sentation was made at tne dinner by Colonel Walker. "I hold in myv hand," said Colonel Walker, " a cannon ball thrown by a British ship of war at the patrotic army on Bunkers Hill, June 17th,* 1775: Through the kindness of Mr Massain, who gives it to his company to present, to you, I give it to you to carry home as a memento " (handing the cannon ball to . Major Durrant amid hearty: cheers and « app T ause). "It was thrown at us in war. We give it to you^m peace as a "token 61 the amity which lives tb-dav betweeo, our, n^tjiQiis^

:: : S*sffiW>%'^gs:V!!&J. ma y live W : Vv ©ver.' './;^here'isiiime forwonder.k'ft? fill 6h^iigeß^in a hundred years," says the ,;N^Whaven JPattadiumf in ", - Xcomi^^^l^^^the v above. "It .'■': \vouldJ|^e^^e^^h^igriz^^ / vV; j^^tei^^^; B|iiishr war ship a ■"• -', ■ cou^. have • ; i:p^n, wSein they ' tpuchecl her off ' that Ball sci: eeching at the ■-■ Taa^ee^breasiworks on that June Tday, that a hundred years • l^ter the ball would behand ed back H -6v& a friendly dinner table as a token ; of amity and cpneof d between : the two greatest ; and most enlighted • [ powers oja earth." \£r '■>'":[[