THE SOLDIER, OFFENDED BY THESE REMARKS, PRESENTS FOR THE ANIMAL’S CONSIDERATION, THE POINT OF HIS BAYONET.
| II. JONES EXPOSTULATES, WITH THAT FREEDOM OF SPEECH WHICH IS THE BIRTHRIGHT OF EVERY ENGLISHMAN. | III. BUT OBTAINING NO SATISFACTION, CALLS ON THE MISERABLE FOREIGNER TO “COME ON.” |
| IV. FIRST (AND LAST) ROUND. —THE SOLDIER DID “COME ON,” FROWNING. JONES RECEIVED HIM, SMILING. —THE SOLDIER MADE PLAY WITH HIS MUSKET: JONES PUT IN HIS LEFT. THEY CLOSED, AND A TERRIFIC STRUGGLE ENSUED, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH JONES GOT HIS ADVERSARY’S “NOB” INTO “CHANCERY.” | V. THE SOLDIER, AT THIS POINT, UNABLE TO USE HIS ARMS, TOOK TO HIS LEGS, AND ADMINISTERED A SERIES OF KICKS UPON THE SHINS OF JONES, WHO IN RETURN SEIZED HIM, LIFTED HIM IN THE AIR, AND THREW HIM. |
| VI. THEN, CONSIDERING THAT JUSTICE AND THE HONOUR OF HIS COUNTRY WERE ALIKE SATISFIED, HE RETIRED, LEAVING THE BODY OF HIS ANTAGONIST ON THE FIELD. | VII. SHOWS THE “BODY,” ON DISCOVERING THAT LIFE WAS NOT EXTINCT, ATTEMPTING TO RISE. P.S. —HE WAS LAST SEEN MAKING FRANTIC EFFORTS TO REGAIN HIS FEET, AND SEEMINGLY PREVENTED FROM DOING SO BY THE WEIGHT OF HIS KNAPSACK, AND OTHER ACCOUTREMENTS. |
VIII.
JONES WAS LATE AT BREAKFAST; HE FOUND ROBINSON READING “GALIGNANI,” AND BROWN LOOKING OUT OF WINDOW, AND AFTER GIVING THEM AN AMUSING ACCOUNT OF THE FUN HE HAD HAD, WAS JUST SITTING DOWN TO THE TABLE, WHEN BROWN SHOUTED OUT, “BY JOVE, THERE IS A REGIMENT OF SOLDIERS COMING DOWN THE STREET!”
IX.
AT FIRST JONES WAS INCREDULOUS; BUT PRESENTLY BROWN, HIS HAIR STANDING ON END, RUSHED TOWARDS HIM, AND IN A VOICE OF AGONY, CRIED, “AS SURE AS WE ARE ALIVE THEY HAVE STOPPED IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, AND THE OFFICER IS COMING IN!”