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.theater, and after helping to form the
long cue of people that wait outside
the pit entrance every night he guards
one Of the exits.
FARMERS STORY.
TT was in February that i was shot,
he said, "and / got my cross in August.
/ was sick in the hospital at Newcastle,
though until the last of May. Yes, the
queen herself gave me the cross, at Os-
borne House, in the Isle of Wight MY
general went with me, and when we came
in the queen said, This Is one OF the
bravest men I have, isn't he, general!
The general just nodded his head. Ihe
queen pinned the cross on my coat ana
said, I am proud of you, and nope
you'll have a long life. My arm was all
bandaged and in splints, and she laid her
hand on it and caressed 1t. / left the
cross where she put it until that coat
was worn SOS / couldn't wear 1t any
longer.
''Im a modest man." he went on, II, m
one of the modestest of mer, but I'll say
this to you about what did. Most OF the
men who've won the cross have advanced
on ambuscades or fought under a fire
that came from they didn't know where.
But I tell you 1 knew. l was shot
through both arms by the same man, and
I tell you it's hard to stand there ana
be potted, and then hold up ready to be
ported again
Farmer wears his cross all the time,
but is inclined to be critical regarding
the worlds treatment Of him. Il amt
one of the favored few of a wealthy
nation" he said '"That Majuba hill
business was ali right, and 1t get a lot
of advertising, but there was no money
in It, I've had my picture printed, 10
end of it, and I've got a whole DOCK
of newspaper clippings about me. A -el-s
low is singing song about Brave ,1 cor.
poral Farmer of Cory Majuba Hill at
ore Of the halls, and making money of
It; but here I am working nights for BOO
night, and that precarious. one Oh my
hands is half paralyzed, too"
Everybody knows about him, however,
and is more ready to tell his story than
he is, and how he left q sweetheart at
home In England when he went TO the
Transvaal AMI how she was the proud
est girl in the whole country. He mar
ried her the day after he came home. and
picture of him and newspaper reference
to him even more then he does.
There Is another V. C. man employed
ct the British museum, and another at
the Imperial institute at Kensington.
They won their crosses together, also N
saving wounded men, this time from
Zuius, who surprised the hospitai OF
which they were in charge.
WON BY BROTHERS.
There Is only one case where two
brothers have won crosses, the men now
being lieutenant generals, K. c. B. Cough
Is their name. The younger, Hugh Henry
Cough, was in command Of Hudson
horse at Lucknow. He led a mighty
charge across a swamp, resulting In the
capture Of two guns; his horse was twice
wounded and his turban cut almost from
his head. He virtually won the cross
again later on through another break
neck charge and fought several duels in
the course Of the battle, finally being
wounded by shot just as he was chafs-
ing down two Sepoys, armed with payo-
nets. Before he got the wound that
downed him he had two horses shot under
| him and had been shot through the hei-
met
His brother, Sir Charles, went through
the Punjab campaign as boy Of seven
teen. Four times he has merited the
cross, originally by saving the life of his
re-eating brother at Khurkowdah, when
he killed the two men who were upon
him Three days afterward he led a cav
airy charge and fought two men hand-to-
hand, killing both Of them. year after,
at Shumshabad, he engaged and sabered
the leader of the enemy, and a month
later he rescued still another officer and
sent his opponent to kingdom come.