a small man the skirts of which reached a little below his waist the buttons were between his shoulders and the sleeves half way to his wrists ao that his hands looked like a couple of huge � and the coat not being large to meet in front was linked together by made of a pair of red another had an old cocked hat stuck on the back of his decorated with a bunch of g of fort � a third had a pair of rusty hanging about his heels � while a fourth who was short and duck legged was equipped in a huge pair of tlie general s cast off breeches which he held up with one hand while he grasped his with the other the rest were in similar style excepting three i who had no shirts and but a pair ana a half of breeches between them wherefore they were sent to the black hole to keep them out of view there is nothing in which the talents of a prudent commander are more completely than in thus setting matters off to the greatest advantage and it is for tliis that our frontier posts at the present day that of for example display their best suit of re i on the back of the who stands in sight of s his men being thus gallantly arrayed � those who lacked and and every man being ordered to in his shirt tail and pull up his general von first took a sturdy draught of foaming ale which the more of was his invariable practice on all great � � as as he rose to make him strong and mighty he drank by the tale six pots of ale and a of meeting of the two heroes occasions � which done he put himself at their head ordered the pine which served as a draw bridge to be laid down and issued forth from his castle like a mighty giant just refreshed with wine but when the two heroes met then began a scene of warlike parade and courtesy that beggars all description � who as i before hinted was a shrewd cunning and had grown gray much before his time in consequence of his saw at one glance the ruling passion of the great von and humoured him in all his their were accordingly drawn up in front of each other they carried arms and they presented arms they gave the standing salute and the passing salute � they rolled their drums and flourished their and they waved their colours � they faced to the left and they faced to the right and they faced to the right about � they wheeled forward and they wheeled backward and they wheeled into � they marched and they by grand divisions by single divisions and by � by by sections and by � in quick time in slow time and in no time at ill for having gone through all the of two great including the eighteen o having x survey op the could recollect or imagine of military including sundry strange and irregular tlie like of which were never seen before or since excepting among certain of our newly raised the two great and their respective troops came at length to a dead halt completely exhausted by the toils of war � never did two train band captains or two heroes in tlie renowned of tom thumb or any other and fighting tragedy their duck legged heavy with more glory and self admiration these military compliments being finished general von escorted his illustrious with great ceremony into the fort attended him throughout the showed him the horn works crown works half and various other or rather the places where they ought to be erected and where they might be erected if he pleased plainly that it was a place of great and though at present but a little yet hat it evidently was a formidable fortress in this survey over he next had the whole garrison put under arms exercised and and concluded by ordering the three birds to be hauled out of the black hole brought up to the and soundly an afternoon s campaign for the amusement of his and to convince him that he was a great the cunning while he pretended to be struck dumb outright with the of the great von took silent note of the of his garrison of which he gave a hint to his followers who tipped each other the wink and laughed most � in their sleeves the inspection review and being concluded the party to the table for among his other great qualities the general was remarkably to huge or rather and in one afternoon s would leave more dead men on the field than he ever did in the whole course of his military career many of these do still remain on record and the whole province was once thrown in by the return of one of his wherein it was stated that though like captain he had only twenty men to back him yet in the short space of six months he had conquered and utterly sixty oxen ninety one hundred sheep ten thousand one thousand of potatoes one hundred and fifty of small beer two thousand seven hundred and thirty five pipes seventy eight pounds of sugar and forty bars of iron � ar von s banquet small game poultry and garden stuff � an achievement since the days of and his all devouring army and which showed that it was only necessary to let potent von and his garrison loose in an enemy s country and in a little while they would breed a famine and starve all the inhabitants no sooner therefore had the general received the first intimation of the visit of governor than he ordered a great dinner to be prepared and privately sent out a of bis most experienced to 