METHODICAL.
I pressed a kiss upon her hand, And there I put the ring ; She blushed, and softly murmured, ‘ There’s a place for everything.' If Napoleon had not been a good boy and gone home to five o’clock tea, there would have been no Austerlitz, no Wagram, no Waterloo. This is a little story for your benefit, young gentlemen of Sandhurst. Certain military students were in 1791 skating on the moat of the ford of Auxonne. One of them took off his skates at five o’clock, and said that he was going home to tea. The others laughed at him. Half an hour later the ice broke and the others were drowned. Temperance journals and military historians please copy.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XII, 21 March 1896, Page 336
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119METHODICAL. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XII, 21 March 1896, Page 336
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