"IF YOU LIKE."

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 8221, 26 November 1888, Page 4

"IF YOU LIKE."

fy vtMarahall MacMahon tells an amusing in illustration of English sangfeirouf.'During the battle of Inkermnn, \< CfeneralUosqaet met an English captain, L 'itirho asked U a certain redoubt could bs ":. taken. " Oh, yes, if you like," answered ». : the General, who was thinking of some- ; * thing 'else. The Bame evening General >'. Bosquet happened to be passing the spot '■ again, he saw the officer woanded. ;/■ ■ He qnofetioned him, and to his amazement - . learned that the captain had attacked the . redoubt, although his men had not a ■ ronnd of aminnnition. " The Englishman ■ had taken liteVally the 'If you like' of -' -General Bosquet, and without any powder ]' and hall had led his men to death." "You

- have no conception of the valor of the '■;■ British soldier," says the Marshal. Mar- ' ..shal Conrohert speaks in equally enthu- ••. ; siastic terms of our troop 3, and especially of non-commissioned officers, in the '•-• Crimea, and says that if England still has ;:Buch men she is to he congratulated. -"'-".These non-commissioned officers were -'masters in their regiments, the officers only taking their places in them to get themselves killed^' He thinks that

Tommy Atkins is a trifle too fond of his little comforts, and was much tickled by the fact that the Zouaves had to teach him how to make soup. So much for the quality: of our troops — their quantity is quite another matter.