fired with the rest and then down another charge as fast as i could staring out through the smoke in front of me where i could see some long thin thing which slowly backwards and forwards a sounded for us to cease firing and a of wind came to clear the curtain from in front of us and then we could see what had happened i had expected to see half that regiment of horse lying on the ground but whether it was that their had them or whether being young and a little shaken at their coming we had fired high our had done no very great harm about thirty horses lay about three of them together within ten yards of me the middle one right on its back with its four legs in the air and it was one of these that i had seen flapping through the smoke then there were eight or ten dead men and about as many wounded sitting dazed on the grass for the most part though one was shouting i at the top of his voice another fellow who had been shot in the � a great black chap he was too � leaned his back against his dead horse and picking up his fired as coolly as if he had been shooting for a prize and hit who was only two from me right through the forehead then he out with his hand to get another that lay near but before he could reach it big who was the man of the company ran out and passed his through his throat which was a pity for he seemed to be a very fine man at first i thought that the had run away � � v � r a i � � � � � r i o r ot ev � � r y m t ti i � � tor v ce ind � i� r f the great shadow who was the youngest in the regiment ran out from the square and pulled down the but quick as a jack after a a came flying over the ridge and he made such a thrust from behind that not only his point but his too came out between the second and third buttons of the lad s he shouted and fell dead on his face while the blown half to pieces with balls over beside him still holding on to his weapon so that they lay together with that dreadful bond still connecting them but when the battery opened there was no time for us to think of anything else a square is a very good way of meeting a but there is no worse one of taking a cannon ball as we soon learned when they began to cut red through us until our ears were weary of the and splash when hard iron met living flesh and blood after ten minutes of it we moved our square a hundred paces to the right but we left another square behind us for a hundred and twenty men and seven officers showed where we had been standing then the guns found us out again and we tried to open out into line but in an instant the � they were this time � were upon us from over the i tell you we were glad to hear the of their hoofs for we knew that that must stop the cannon for a minute and give us a chance of back and we hit back pretty hard too that time for we were cold and vicious and savage and i for one felt that i cared no more for the than if they had been so many sheep on one gets past being afraid ip the ov till � t or thinking of one s ot t r � � feel that you want tc vm � i have gone through hi i � � � i that time for hey r ii n � � them and we se r � i � r at a mi f rt m i mothers weeping for f i� w have felt so pleased oi er i hot brutes when hey are p � � as two bull when got then the did a e v that this would the he wheeled us into line pot n hollow out of reach of the gun � again this gave us time to � � too for the regiment had � � in the sun but � � � deal worse for some of � � dutch were thousand of th in our line pleased them too and o � � had been � � with us or � � � � � soaked r ir � was firm bound � � � � � i r � � f � � � � � � � � � r� the great shadow it was little we could see of the battle but a man would be blind not to know that all the fields behind us were covered with fl men but then though we on the right wing knew nothing of it the had begun to show and napoleon had set of his men to face them which made up for ours that had bolted and left us much as we began that was all dark to us however and there was a time when the french had in between us and the rest of the army that we thought we were the only left standing and had set our teeth with the intention of selling our lives as dearly as we could at that time it was between four and five in the afternoon and we had had nothing to eat the most of us since the night before and were soaked with rain into the bargain it had off and on all day but for the last few hours we 