of sundry long loose and and a recent of this raw material made it seem expedient to bring such an influence to bear upon the new ground of remote certain and were accordingly directed to move under the general idea that an force from the had occupied while in of another general idea really more to the though not announced the accompanying band received instructions to be liberal and lively in its performances by the way all along their route through the wide brown land the soldiers might be sure of drawing as much sympathetic attention as that west country could on any given line probably a lost there would be no one disposed like to get out of the way unless some very small child roared and ran if of a size to have acquired the latter accomplishment at the sound of the drums to the great majority of these the spectacle would be a rare and gorgeous a memory across twilight time tracts as a vision of scarlet and golden and proudly pacing horses and music that made you feel you had never known how much life there was in you all the while some toll it is true had to be paid for this enjoyment when it had passed by things suddenly grew very flat and and there was a tendency to feel more or less vaguely because you could not go a yourself in cases however where circumstances rendered that obviously impossible as when people were too old or or were women or girls this thrill of discontent seldom very acute soon subsided by virtue of the self preserving instinct which us to persist in knocking our heads hard against our stone walls but it was different where the was so situated that he could imagine himself riding or after the to fields of peril and and glory without the of the picture by simultaneously supposing himself some quite other person the gleam in young m s eyes as he watched the red and twinkle out of sight was to the brightening up be a lost his grandfather s shaggy brows as the flash is to the sheet that are but a harmless reflection from far off storms and there indeed pleasure paid a duty if those who were liable to it did not imitate s prudence and hold aloof the reason may have been that they had not fortitude enough to turn away from excitement offered on any terms or that their position was less desperately than his and the latter explanation is the more probable one since few lads in and about can have had their martial aspirations by an so and yet so effectual there was nothing in the world to hinder from except just the of his mother and that was an so unreasonable as to verge upon what her neighbours would have called ould for though a widow woman and therefore entitled to occupy a pathetic position its privileges were defined by the opinion that she was not so badly off as she might ha been s departure need not have left her desolate since she had another son and daughter at home besides married in the village and settled down at where he was doing well and times and again asking her to come and live with then would have been able to help her out of his pay much more than he could do by his at where work was a lost slack and its low so that the result of a lad s daily labour sometimes seemed mainly the putting of a fine edge on a superfluous appetite all these points were most clearly seen by in the light of a fiercely burning desire but that availed him nothing unless he could set them as plainly before some one else who was not thus illuminated and not far from two years back he had resolved that he would attempt to do so no more the soldiers had been about in the district on the day before scattered like beds over the and and firing till the misty october air with excitement when you have lived your life among wide bounded where the silence is broken by the s pipe or the of some heavily flapping bird you will know the meaning of a call and his had acted as camp followers from early till late with ever one whereof was that he heard his especial definitely decide to go and at next monday which gave a turn more to the screw of his own wish it was with a scheme for whether there were any chance of bringing his mother round to a rational view of the matter that he and his friend dropped into her cabin next morning on the way to carry up a load of turf mrs was washing her couple of in an old brown butter and thought he had introduced the subject rather a lost happily when he told her she had a right to be her hands out of the and the finest she could and she the commander in of the army forces in to pay her a visit of course this statement required as it was intended to require so proceeded to it s himself s off to a monday he be in the light so the next time we set eyes on him it s along the street we see him like the boys we had here ah sure now that be grand said mrs we all be proud to behold him that way t is a fine thing for any yoimg man who s got a fancy to take up it then it is so said with emphasis promptly making for the opening given to him it is said there s like it said ah at all said mrs made no remark as she twisted a dripping apron into a shaped roll to the water out how much 