These volunteers set an excell example which deserves to be widely known. They were quite aware that by joining the British army they would obtain pay and better treatment as regards material wants than they were likely to receive from the French authorities, whose ideas of the amount of comfort necessary for soldiers are not at all on the British scale, yet they resolutely threw in their lot with the French army as a testimony of affection for the country in which most of them had lived for some years and which they had come to regard as their home.
Others were too old to enlist in the British army but, rather than shelter themselves behind this excuse for staying at home, they volunteered with the others Two or three physically undeveloped but big-hearted fellows resorted to the expedient of stuffing themselves with potatoes and drinking large
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