SOLDIERS AND SAILOR.
It is a remarkable thing that life in the two services will, after a certain time, change exactly similar characters. The surroundings are so completely different, that'they mould tlie temperament and alter th'e-habits of men who are very much alike in individuality when entering the respective services.
loinmy Atkins and Jack Tar have their P'-oiiliarities. but' rHi-re is one thimj. tiiat '■•eiongs to both. namely, a happy indifli\eiico ■■■• llie future aud a quick seizure of every opportunity to K ..i lW .y f rnm the fearful monotony of a daily round of peace^ilutiesy When thi gum to play, \\ At Rudyard Kipline says, both lesjjond'ff tne call «.f duty, without & flinch; Thfebost. swain pipes his whistle and the drummer beats to quartern, or the bonier sounds tjies -■idvance, and at it these -veritable' timers for netting ro, whether dressed in blue or red. Hut, in pi-ace, how "different is the jovial.gay, lijfht-h'jartrd tar to the itiffbearine of the red coats. No one ever saw two soldiers 'idiinrnn oue.liorse; but, this is one of Jsck'i highest ideas of'fmi. ' Kelson, Drake, and Rodney obtained lor fciißlarid the supremacy of the sea', without tm;j)»do boatf v ironclads. ' Wellington gamed iminortnl victories without Maxim >inna •■m-i 'iniVk firing hreechloadeia -that cmil.l kilhu lOUOymk So it is with other tluiijis. ,'I Im oul clay pipe and'the cheroot ire discarded as obsolete, and now Old Judge Cigarettes are, figuratively as well a| literally, in everybody's mouth,
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8616, 21 December 1896, Page 2
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242SOLDIERS AND SAILOR. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8616, 21 December 1896, Page 2
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