'Stop,' said I, 'a minute; I shall be ready for another shot,

I have now gotten my breath again, I will make them rot.'

I then said to a gunner who was alleviating a gun,

'Which of those columns do you mean to make run?'

'That,' said he, pointing with his finger to a very large mass.

A ball came that instant and turned him into brass.

It cut him in two; he then turned as yellow as that metal.

He was a strange sight to see, and appeared quite brittle."—P. 16.

H. B. C.

U. U. C.