Morris tribune., 1881-06-30
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CHILDREN'S CORNER.
The Bravest Man In the Regiment.
mn, uo vo,,po Daopla

From Harper's Young People.
$50 you want me to tell you story about
brave man, little people?" said Colonel
Graylock, as his half-dozen nephews and
nieces, tired with their afternoons play,
gathered around his arm chair by the fire.
"Well, I've seen plenty of them in my
time but the bravest man 1 ever knew was
young ensign in our regiment, whom we
used to call Gentleman Bob'-and right
we'll he deserved the name, though not as
we meant it.
soldering is very different thing now
from what it was in my young days, aad
men have learned-what it's pity they
didn't learn sooner-that a man may make
none the worse officer for being a gentle
man and a Christian. Henry Havelock
taught US that pretty fairly, but in the
rough old times it was very different thing.
Then the harder an English officer drank,
and the louder he swore. and the more he
bullied his men, and the reader he was to
fight duel or to join in any low frolic, the
better his comrades liked him, and I'm
afraid we were much the same as the rest.
so you may fancy what we thought
when man like Gentleman Bob came
among us, who was always quiet and sober
and orderly, and instead of brawling and
rioting like the rest of US, spent all his
spare time over dry scientific books that We
knew nothing about, and read chapter of
the bible every morning and evening. How
we did laugh at him, and make mock of
him, to be sure! But the provoking thing
was that he never seemed to mind it one
bit, and he was so good -natured, and so
ready to do any one good turn when he
could, that it certainly ought to have made
mores the pity.
But before long something did make
us ashamed of ourselves, and this was it.
Our colonel was in great hurry one day
to find out the whereabouts of a village that
wasn't marked on his map, and none of
US could help him, when, 10, and behold!
forward stepped Gentleman Bob with
neat little map of his own drawing, and
there was the very place, just where it
should be. The colonel looked at it, then
at us, and said grimly; It's not often, gen.
tlemen. that the youngest officer of a
regiment is also the smartest; let this be
lesson to you
You may be sure this reproof made US
none the more merciful in talking against
poor Bob: and perhaps we might have done
something more than talk but for thing
that happened one night at mess. Our ju-
nior captain, rough, bullying kind Of fell
low, was going to empty a glass of wine
over Bob's head, when the ensign grasped
his wrist, and overturned the wine upon
him instead and the wrist was black and
blue from that squeeze for many a day
after.
About month after this, one of our
men, who used to have fits Of madness
every now and then, from an old wound in
the head, came flying along with big
knife in his hand, slashing at everything
within reach. Some cried to shoot him,
Bob said, quietly. A mans life is worth
more than that; let me try In moment
he had seized the fellows knife hand, and
tripped him so cleverly that he was down
before we could call out: and then some of
the men came up and secured him.
Bob's pluck after that; but all this is a
trife to what was coming. A few days
later came one of the greatest
battles of the war, and We
were so hard pressed On the left where
my regiment was) that at last there was
nothing for it but to fail back. We formed
again under cover of some thickets, but
even there we had enough to do to hold
our ground, for the enemy had brought up
several guns, and were giving it to US pref
ty hot.
"Suddenly, between two gusts of smoke.
one of our wounded, lying out on the open
plain, was seen to wave his hand feebly,
as if for help. 1t was one of our Eeuten-
ants. who had been harder than any one
upon Gentleman Bob, and his chance was
a poor one, for it seemed certain death to
try and reach him h1ough such cit
Il 1ef In H1o5ch him
the scorching sun was pretty sure to do it.
"All at once a man was seen stepping
out from the sheltering thicket, and that
man was Gentleman Bob He never
looked to right or left, but went
straight to where his prosecutor was
lying helpless. and tried to raise
him. At first the French banged away at
him like fury, brit when they saw what he
was doing, several officers called out, Ne
tire- pas, mes enfdnts ('Don't fire, my
boysO and raised their caps to him in a
salute. Bob lifted the wounded man
gently ia his arms, and shielding him
with his own body, brought him back in
TO our lines; and such cheer as went up
then never heard befor or since"
And did that horrid lieutenant die.
uncle?'
Luckily not" answered the colonel.
laughing. 'for I'm sorry to say the 'horrid
lieutenant was no other than myself"
ooh, uncle. we're you ever as naughty as
that?" lisped tiny voice, in tones of
amazement.
But what became of Gentleman
Beb'?" asked an impatient boy.
Hes now my respected brother-in-law'
and your papa" said the colonel, ex-
changing sly look with tine-lookinS
man on the other side of the room, who
had been listening to the story with
quiet smile. And now that you've had
your tale, &C and say goodnight, for it's
high time for by-by."