Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
REGIMENTS PETS.
Sausage Idol of Guards and Cold
streams Parade Behind Goose.

SAUSAGE Idol of Guards and Cold
streams Parade Behind Goose.
Man has an instinct for tame pets.
No matter what his surroundings may
be, he loves to have some dumb friend
to pet and pamper. @ -
This fact is strikingly illustrated in
the cases of the English regiments 1t
might be thought, says an English pa
per, that, in the thick of war, where
soldiers carry their lives in their hands
they would have few thoughts to spare
for domesticated- animals. But that is
far from the TRUTH Most regiments
=haVektheir pets and these pets are even
more fondly cared fSflon the field of
battle than in the barracks at home.
Take, for example, Sausage, the idol
Of the Grenadier guards. Sausage Is
not a pig, but beautiful collie dos
which was picked up in South AFRICA
during the Boef war.
The Grenadier guards promptly fell
in love with him and he went through
several engagements with them, being
wounded on more than one occasion.
When regimental pets get out OF
hand they are severely court7martial-
ed. Take the case of Billie, the brindle
bulldog of the Second Royal Irish
rifles.
Billie went right through the Boer
war without bad mark to his name:
but when he got back to England he
fell a victim to the temptation of a
butcher boys calves. 1t was decided
that Billie must leave the regiment
he had disgraced himself; and for days
the Second Royal Irish rifles drilled
with faces as long as fiddles.
When, however, it came out that
Billy only bit in retaliation having
been provoked by a.4volley OF stones
the irish rifiemen seized the excuse
and reinstated their favorite.
The most distinguished dog the
army has ever petted was Bobby, who
went to Afghanistan with the Second
battalion ROYAL Berkshire regiment.
AT the battle of Maiwand he acted
like a hero. running continually to the
front and barking furiously at the en-
envy, till a bullet ripped the skin off
his spine. So famous were his exploits
that, on his return to England, Queen
Victoria, with her own hands, decorat-
ed him with the Afghan war medal.
Tiny. the darling of the army hos
smelt powder at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882
and he felt shot there too. for he
was wounded in the paw. Such a
favorite did he become that the hos
pital corps after the war was over
bought him the Egyptian medal and
the Khedive's star.
For over a century the darling of
the Royal Fusilliers has been q goat
When one goat dies another takes its
place. Why the Royal Fusilliers are
so addicted to goats it is impossible to
explain; all one can say is that goats
are their tradition. sE
"A goat once went through the Mata-
belle war with a lancer's regiment es-
Gaping without injury though it was
often in the thick of the fray.
The Death or Glory Boys like bears.
Until few years ago they had large
black and white bruin, but she turned
nasty and was consigned to a cage in
the Dublin zoo.
A Canadian bear was once the pride
of the Kings Own. An Irishman was
supposed to be in charge of the ami
NAL, but perhaps it would be more ac-
curate TO say that the animal was in
charge of the Irishman, for he used to
watch over the Irishman when asleep
and nobody was permitted to disturb
the soldiers SAUNDERS.
Peter was a goose and belonged TO
the Coldstream guards. His regiment
never went anywhere without him and
he accompanied 1t to Canada. When
the guards came back to London the
mob was amazed to see them march
ing through the streets headed by a
strutting goose,
500 Hoo Add, proprietor of a Chinese
laundry in Pittsburg, registered for the
recent election as having been born in
San Francisco and will take his case