Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-23

tin Prison, tndt tn6 pTeucu WOQlu
have whipped if there had only been
good weather that day. He points
out to you the fatal sunken road oil
Ohain, and tells you it was twenty-f FIVE
feet deep before the field, besides il
was cut down to build the Lion
Mound, and you believe him. You
come to the battle ground from The
station over an excellent highway,
which is said to be this very road.
The guide points out the hamlet La
Belle Alliance, Emperor Napoleon's
'head-quart."
Over there, beyond, was his post
for observasseoDg, later in the day. A
paysan.in a blouse blue, hkeme,a work
ing man, he guided the Emperor here
to the field. 1t is the costume OF the
country. A cannon ball fv past the
paysan, so, pstt! and he duck his head
so that he might not get hit. The
great Napoleon, be laugh ana S y;
Mon friend, the ball can hit you SO
good in the back as 10 the face; but to
be hit in The back it is the disgrass.'
"Over there where you see the corr
there was the Forty-second HiOhland
regiment, called the Black Watch.
Down here were the BRAY I~uuiskillens,
Irishmen, aud the Scotch Gravs, com
mauded by Sir William Ponsonby.
The Emperor he see them, he say 10 bis
aid: 'Cha-r-r-ge! cut these battalion
in the pi-ece!' The aid he say: Mon
Empereur, you cannot. You not these
men. They fight like devils But
the Emperor he order to attack. He
fear The Prussians come up under
Rlueher. He wish to whip the Eng.
lish first aud then the Prussians sepa-
rate. Ze English do not attack /; zey
on re deuieusive. When Sir William
Ponsonby see re French cavalry com.
ing, he order his men forr. ward. He
wave his hand and be cry: Scotland
~fofeVairel'
THE effect IL electric, as Martin
Prison, with glowing cheek aud fash
ing eye, raises bis voice with this
h~attle-cry. He pauses a moment,
moves a little to the right.
I'm the middle Of The field, down
there. was a deep mo'ass-swamp,
what you call. The French fight, tie
Inniskillens fight. Tie ScoGch and
Euelish h1ht. They stick fsSs in this
morass; one falls derd; another climbs
on top of him; he 2all dead, too; an
other comes-French Scotch, English
aud Irish-Lhey are all mixed ~ TO-
gether, dead and dying, till you uoD't
know one from another In q little
while all Ia over. Hardly a Ffench
trooper is lefG alive
Half shed tears peep out from more
than one eye-manly eyes they z
too-as Mart:n Prison passes quio'
10 the other side of the Lion MoOu-
meat. He points off in this direc.
ton.
"There," said he. THE. fight Was
very hot. The soldiers they come no
more wiz bullets; rot more VIZ re
bayonets. Gay come wiz re musket
butt end, club So"
The little mans French accent q
very marked in the exciting passages.
he points out to us where Wellington
stood. In accents of red -hot SEQ o be
tells US how a German Colonel ,urOed
traitor to the great Emperor; how, 100,
a Holland Dutch regiment basely
deserted him in the moment Of peril,
and went over to the enemy. BE
turned and pointed again.
down there" continued be, you
see the field Of petate2 Where that
field Of peiate is, Cambronue he form
the hollow sguaFe wiz re Old Guard
Napoleon. You see this road, down
deep like a ditcb2 Over there by the
road stood the English Zheneral, ADD
be say to his men, HOP, Guards, aod
hat them!' Soon the road is full OF
dead aud wounded. Over there is he
villa Houqoumont. You have lepd.
perhaps, Victor Hugo's description2,
Indeed we have, and we will reaG
it again as soon as VIC 60 home"
How wildly both that aud Byron's
poem came back to us as we stood
there beside the granite pedestal oil
the Liop Of Waterloo! Do not fail tc
read boz before you visit this soil
which drank the blood Of heroes.
IoaDnot now remember the numbe
Of the regiments aud their comma b.
ers, and have no book to refer to, bu,
the guide knows all the important
ones, and will tell you. The Lior
Mound is said to be two hundred an,
twenty feet high. You will never
know how hard it is 10 pin a measure.
meut right down till you Try. Human
nature lies scandalously when it comes
to dimensions and population.
Our guide takes up the thread of biz
narration.
"There was the orchard you reaC
about. A high red brick wall wa
around 1t. The French see the wal
through the trees. They think it i
the red coats of the British soldiers
and they charge the solid wall. You
see all was misty and smoky that day
1t is not strange that the Frencl
make this mistake.
when all was lost for the Freucl
the Emperor turned to fee to Paris
He was In his carriage. A member Q
his staff galloped up TO him and said
"'Mon Emperor here is DO tim
to lose. You must to horse So h
jumped on a horse and ran away quick
he lett his carriage behind. The Prus
slams captured it the next day, aud j
is now with Madame fussaad's wa.
works 10 London" Which it is. w
saw it there in the Bonsparte room
with the EmperOr's iron camp bed
stead folded up and laid across til
front. II is a great numbering affair
heavy as 6 Cincinnati beer wager
The Emperor could not have gou