The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-02-06

means OF communication between them,
IL / had not taken that sudden resolu-
ton we were, 1 assur you, in q most
dangerous predicament."
We talkedgof Lamartine's description
of Bonaparte's weakness, and even COW
ardice, towards the close Of Waterloo,
He said: "Of course Icould see moth
ing about it, but I can hardly believe it.
l think that even with ordinary men a
great interest would overcome personal
fear"
Croker-Perhaps it is as true as your
having had eight horses knock ed up or
killed under you. Copenhagen mist
have been a very old horse when I saw
him last at Strathtieldsaye, if you rode
him at Copenhagen.
Duke-Oh, no. He was not named
from my having ridden him at Copen.
hagen; his dam was . blood mare which
Tom Grosvenor had in the expedition
to Copenhagen, and he called her foal
by that name, so that he must have
been fooled after 1906. Grosvenor sold
him to Charles Stewart, now London
derry, of whom, when he left the Pc.
ninsuia, ! bought him and rode hin
throughout the rest of the war, and
mounted no other horse at Waterloo.
In coming to see me Gas he had done
the day bat n before September q
he (the Duke) had chosen to walk from
the station to our house and without
even a guide. He said he had found
it a rough walk and the ground inter
sected IN q way he had II 1t expected; SC
said to him: 1T seems you forgot tc
guess what was at the other side of the
lill." This was in allusion to circum-
stance which had occurred between him
and me some thirty years before.
When travelling ON the north road we
amused ourselves by guessing what sort
Of u country we should find at the other
side of the hills we drove up, and when
l expressed surprise at some extraordi-
nary good gnesses he had made. he said
why, l have spent all my life in trying
to guess what was at the other side OF
the lill."
l had reminded him o fthis just before
we we're driving across the revine that
had impeded him. and he turned round
to Mrs. Corker to explain it to her, ad-
ding, "All the business of war, and in,
deed nll the business of life, is to en-.
leavor to find out what you don't know
by what you do; that's what I called
guessing what was at the other side d
the hill.'"
He said the perfection OF practical wal
was to move troops as steadily and cool
ly on a field of battle as on a parade.
"Soult's fault was that, though q great
strategest, he never seemed to me tc
know how to handle the t.oops after
the battle had begun"
| then told him what Guizot told me
Of I4annes having said that"le plus grand
General etuit celui que la cannonade
faisait meiux entandre, ct que la fumee
faisait voir plus CLAIR"
Duke-Humph! "a pause.) That's
only a cleverer phrase for what I have
been just saying--sang froid-presence
OF mind; but that is not enough; the
mind. besides being cool, must have the
art of knowing what is to be done and
how to do it.
Il certainly did not draw my sword.
| may have ordered. and l dare say i
did order, the charge Of the cavalry,
and pointed ont its direction; but ]
did not charge as . common trooper.
II have ut all times been in the hab-
it of covering as much as possible the
troops exposed to the FIRE of cannon.
l place them behind the top Of thu
rising ground and make them sit and
lie down, the better to cover them from
the fire.
After the fire Of the enemy's
cannon, the enemy's troops may
have advanced, or . favorable oppor-
tunity of attacking might have arrived.
What I must have said, and possibly
did say, was: Stand up Guardsr and
then gave the commanding officers
the order to attack.
my common practice in q defensive
position was to attack the enemy at the
very moment at which he was about to
attack III troops"