General Brooke was ing Captain Cruickshank, of rs, wounded, to the r I Brooke was him: captain, and was wounded. in the presence of the General in command—Sir Robert Napier, now Lord Napier of Magiala, He himself related to us last year how he, at that time an A.-D.-C., was standing by the General's side, watching the progress of the assault on the Taku forts. 'I'he General was looking at the operations through opera-glass, making front time to time observat 8 to the way things were Sudidenly a ball atruck the A.- down right beside the G or removed the g the slightest notice of the tinued his scrutiny of the o addressed his remarks showed how perfectly master of himself he was; he rather liked me, and 1 am sure he was sorry I was bit, but there hia stooping down to help me—ere were others about to do all he would not distract hia attention stant from the real business he had in hand. Napier was a der ifferonce to danger was in General Brooke's opin very rare quality—one much more ra than is supposed by those who derive their ions of these things from the rhetorical phrases to be read in the histories of battle never knew half-a-dozen meu," so ho, "'of whom it could with truth be said that they were quite indifferent to shot and shell; T know Tam not. Of course men do their duty. They hi i away; but the that it would be as well if all were comfortably Lord Clyde was one of the men who might be said to be free from this foehn, yet on one occasion when a sot passed close overload and a young officer suddenly stooped, he involuntarily followed the example and stooped too, He fiercely reprimanded the officer for showing any emotion when the shot went past, saying You see, sir, your
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