The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-16


were already posing their assegais;
saw him alight, hustle the wounded
man up into his saddle, Tending off the
Zulus with the revolver grasped in .i,s
spare hand, Chamber up behind his man,
and with a dig of the spurs set the
game little beast a-going after the 9TH
er horSemen.
That was pure, unseltish. devoted.
gallant chivalry. concerning which, as
behooved self-respecting soldier, he
Kept silence. 1t was because l went
and told the story to Sir Evelyn Wood
that Beresford got the Victoria Cross:
| and, indeed, he declined the honor were
II not accorded also to the soldier who
had aided him in keeping the wounded
man i'm the saddle during the retreat.
This picture of work of Beresfords
| account "the bravest deed l ever saw
and | should have made it the topic Of
this contribution. but that | have al
ready described it fully in print.
AN EXAMPLE Or BRANADO.
Of very different type of courage
! was the conduct of Wisram Butty. a
| distinguished Indian officer who was
| my companion with the lhtle garrison
OF Saarbrucken, at the beginning of the
Franco-German war.
On the I'd of August, the day Of the
poor Prince Imperial's baptism of
fire, came pouring down on the little
town Frossard's divisions from the
Spicherenberg. The German battalion
slowly quilted. AS the last detach-
ment cleared out from the earthwork
ii had been holding, Il man was shot
down.
Batty, who had been chatting at the
withdrawal. got mad" caught up the
fallen mans rifle and pouch, ran out,
dropped ON one knee, and started a
iiVeiy fusuade against Pougets French
brigade. PougetS brigade responded
with cheerful promptitude. and Batty
presently was bowled over.
tis reckless freak would have cost
ann his life without benefit of clergy
had ne, a neutral citizen IN arms, peen
caught by the French, and 1t gave 70
German professor ana NySeiI tne
tIoubie OF going out ana lctcnlhG MN
H. hiehulhg MN, ana sehoihs MIN OH
10 hospltai
bu''y zen HshtltiS raNe'y III AlS!aI-
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pelilSerent, but 1or the eNceile''I I
auase, MI nlsl pohu'n ue n,ortuis,
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