Recruiting for the Southern army' continues to be carried on in all sections of the province, byt with increasing difficulties. The recruiting officer is paid so much a for each man he can induce to join the colours and often a rosy of the pleasures of war is painted be-_ fore the wondering gaze of the country farmer, Little fighting, good pay, 00d society, free travel, and often an opportunity to get rich quickly, are plausible arguments which have induced quite a number to leave their quiet homes for fields afar, Dut the new recruit does not travel very far before other sounds strike ears, and reports of bloodshed and slaughter are repeated in social gossip by officers and men, self-filed heroes, who have come home from the front and expect to remain at home.
These reports sets the youthful recruit thinking and before smelling smoke from his frst battle he begins 0 pine for the leeks and. garlic of his own native. village." Such thoughts grow and er* long, on. some, dark night, while others are sleeping, dark forms arise quietly from their pallets of straw, stealthily
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