The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-29

playing their being Only
played that don't know its
name but White "Take Me London
Again 1t sounds very pretty The regiment would sooner be
struck off the roster than forego its distinction.
After the dismiss" sounded the officers rode off home
to for stables and the filed into the lines riding
easytat Is to say they opened their tight buttons shifted
their helmets began joke the humor took
them slipping easing grls and curhs
good trooper values his exactly much he values
himself and believes should believe that the two together
irresistible whore girls concerned
Then the orderly officer the order water horses ana
the regiment oafed off the squadron trougls which In
rear OF the stables and between these ana the barracks mere
were four huge troug for each squadron arranged en-
echeon that the whole regiment could water In minutes
II liked But fingered for seventeen as rule while the band
played
The up squadrons ana
the slipped their the srrups and cmnd each
other The setting In big 1ot bed of red cloud
and the road to the cv lines seemed to run straight into the
suns There little dot the road 1t and grew
till showed horse with of grdon thing his
back The gaed through the the grdron
Some of the troopers shaded their with their hands and
said what the mischief as tha there 'imT
In another minute they heard neigh that soul
mann the regiment knew and heading straight toward
the band the dead drum horse Of the White hussars!
On his whers banged and bumped the keedrums draped
in Grape and on his back very stiff and solder sat bare
headed skeleton.
The band stopped playing, and for a there
hush
Then some one in oornen said it was the troop sergeant
maIor-swuug yelled No
exactly for what happened aferward but 1t that least
one man in each troop set an example of panic ana the rest fol-
lowed like sheep The horses that had barely their
into the roughs reared and capered but the band
broke which did when ghost the drum horse was
fong distant all hoos followed suit and the caer Of the
anpedequlte different from the orderly throb of
movement the rough horsepay
made them only terrified They felt their
backs afraid OF something When horses know that
all Is except the butchery.
Troop after turned from the troughs and
and everywherehke spilled quicksilver II
dinay spectacle for horses stages
and the carbne buckets Hopping against their sides urged
the horses Men shouting and cursng and trying to
pun cear OF the band which being chased by the horse
whose rider had fallen forward ana seemed to be squirting for
The colonel had gone the for drink Most
of teofcers were with him and the suatern of the day
preparing down to the lines and receive tile
the majors When Take Me Again"
stopped after twenty every In the What
earth has happenedY minute later they unmltay
and far the plain the White hssars
broken and hying
The speecless with he thought
the regiment had risen against him unanimously drank
The band disOrganzed mob and at its heels ared
the dead and buried horsewith the
ing gathering skeleton HomnYale whispered softly to Maryn
~No wire Will stand that treatment and the band which had
doubled like back again But the Of the
gone rong all the province, for the dusk