THE SCOTS BRIGADE;
OR,
THE OLD NINETY-FOURTH FOOT.


CHAPTER XXIII.

“When midnight hour is come,

The drummer forsakes his tomb,

And marches, beating his phantom-drum,

To and fro through the ghastly gloom.

“He plies the drum-sticks twain,

With fleshless fingers pale,

And beats, and beats again, and again,