Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-23
Suudsy at Waterloo.
cor ninoinnati Cemmerclal.

II IL Ak9N"1
Hall and walked through the very
ball room where tradition and Byron
declare there was a sound OF revelrJ
the night before the battle OF Water
loo. LII | was to undertake to make .
modest estimate. not an overgr0wn
one. YOU know, should say that "tall
women and brave men" and soft eyes
looked love TO eyes that sDake again,
were quoted n hundred times in ten
minutes. an average OF ten a minute
while we fingered in that histoilC
hall room. If there is anything we dc
particularly avoid it is e~xaggeration
Next day, as a fitting sequence, The
Cookies went to the battle ground
The great fight between Napoleon and
the world took place Sunday, june
Is. 1915. 1t was on another summer
Sunday. fair and smiling as the sun
rise. July %, 1892. that we visited the
spot where the late Of a continent was
decided:
We took the afternoon train IRON
Brussels to the little station OF Bralue
IiAIlend, half an hour ride or so away
The cars we're filled with working
people, out for their Sunday afternoon
picpic in the country. They carried
treat baskets Of lunch, and had no
End of babies with them. Brussels is
CAV aud brilliant with happy people OO
Sunday.
lists piled into omnibuscs, inside and
ont like beeves about q hive, and were
driven 10 the battle-ground, Here a
little aside. 1t quite detFaets IRON
the solemn dignity Of the occasion. II
is wholly foreign to the stupendous
theme ia hand at this moment; But
if ever you come to Waterloo 30 not
fail to ride upon the outside OF su
omnibus, to watch how a Belgian
French driver prOpels his horses
along. We stop the press to say IL.
The Guide books ought to put down
this circus as one Of the things the
stranger can not afford to miss.
Jehu has a long whip; four or five
feet of it is a wooden stock the rest
il a leather thong six feet long. There
are four horses, SO called, as you 90 up
the hill. The two in front are attached
to the vehicle by rope harness. II
takes W people TO starG them. A
boy stands at their heads and holds
them as if they would fly of at any
moment, the very incarnation Of fiery,
untamed equine wiekedness. The
driver chambers 10 his seat. He begins
to look excited. The boy at the head
tremblingly lets go.
ALLY" says he.
"WhishJ Hoop lal Hud-upl Hop
hopl" says the driver.
Nothing moves.
The driver grows red in the face
He cracks the long whip with the r.
port ola cannon, a FoT.th Of July 10!
pistol any how. He whistles, be prays
he swears. He calls on the Saints auC
Madonnas. Whisp!
"Whispl Whispl Whoopl Whoop
Banel' The lead horse lit1s his RICH
hind leg.
"Wbeepl WheepI Wbeepl" screeche
that devoted driver. He throws hi
arms wildly above bis head. He crack
the whip three times in succession
louder than ever. There are murder
FIRE aud birthstone in his countenance
The off horse winks bis left ear
The near one rolls his eye around Will
amid expression of horse sense, anC
asks the driver if he sees anything
green there,
ALLY Allyl Allyn screams JehI
Sacre. "Whoy! whoyl hopl hopl hop
Ally goshl Go onl" He winds up il
good Aatfootcd English. When tn
equines hear that they know theil
time has come. The driver swells VI
and turns black in the face. Jus
as he is about to fall over in a fit W,
move off at a snail's pace. Ascending
the hill another fellow runs alOngsid,
to encourage the driver and to catcl
him If he iaints. Both shout out a
the top Of their voices throughout
The tortoise like concern creeps on til
the top Of the hill is reached. Tn,
horses maintain a philosophical calm
We have been ten minutes making
distance decently educated horse
would have done in FIVE. The drive
is painting and perspiring at ever.
pore. He is as wilted as a cabbagl
leaf on a hot plate. He is exhausted
he has labored twice as hard as an,
Of the iour legged humbugs that havi
hauled US to the scene of former con
fict. He has fought the battle o
Waterloo over again. II must stoI
three minutes and get a glass Of beer,
says be.
Driving omnibus in Belgium is
serious business.
Waterloo battle ground has bee
changed so much that Napoleon
Grande himself would never know j
again if his melancholy shade wer
permitted to hover for a brief spac
abont the scene of his great defeaI
Everybody knows, Of course, how th
field where the hottest part of tb
conflict was has been dug down an
the earth taken from it to build tn
Lion mound, a great artificial hill wit
a bronze lion on top. No taste coul
well be worse than that which thl
mutilated Waterloo battle ground.
We lion, be is in six pi-ace." say
our guide. MANY year ago, a SO
der, who fought wiz 70 Emperor
Napoleon at Waterloo, he come OF
from Bruzelle. He climb up in
night, init a ladder, be break two, tr,
piece off re lions tail. He bring DO,
der and put under him. He will bic
all up, he SO mad at ze English. b
gay discover him."
If yeu come here, secure, If possibl
the services Of Martin Prison as guiG
His certificate says that his father,
guide before him, helped carry off t
wounded and inter the dead, after t