TWO STORIES OF WATERLOO.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 66, 15 September 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

TWO STORIES OF WATERLOO.

At the battle of Waterloo a Scotch j colour-sergeant, who had been mortally wounded, fell into a ditch ; and one of his comrades, missing the flag, went straight to the ditch where he had seen the Highlander fall. Meanwhile the enemy were charging vigorously. His comrade tried to disengage the flag from the hands of the wounded Highlander, but as he could not succeed, he hoisted the wounded man on his shoulder, thus carrying both Bergoaut and flag. The enemy, who were charging, Beeing this good deed, stopped suddenly, crying " Bravo ! bravo, l'Ecossais! " They did not charge again till the brave man had rejoined h\s company. During the retreat which followed this battle, two companies of field artillery stoped under orders near LoissoDS, at a village a little distance from the main road. The mayor was sent for to make the customary distribution of food, etc., which was requisitioned, that it might be done without confusion. It seemed only a moment before all the bread was collected, each inhabitant giving his own part willingly, and the mayor ordered that lots should be drawn who should give a cow to furnish moat for the soldiors. The lot fell on a poor, old, infirm woman, who, with some difficulty, dragged herself forward on her stick, to speak to the mayor. "This cow," she said, " which you wish to take from me, is all I have ; she is both my means of living and my companion, and if you kill her there is nothing left for me but to die too." The mayor was inflexible, and the axe was raised to kill the cow, when the artillerymen cried with one voice, " What does it signify ? We will fancy this is Friday, and fast more willingly." They returned the cow to the old woman, and she led it away with tears of joy and gratitude.