Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885, Browne, Gordon · London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, New York, E & J.B. Young · leaf 28
sun is greeted with gun-fire and trumpet clarionsshriller than the cock,and there he sets to a like salute with tuck ofdrum. Here the young recruit drills, the warrior puts on his medal,the old pensioner steals back to watch them, and the soldiers childrenplay—sometimes at fighting or… … HE barrack-masters wifewas standing in the porchof her hut, the sides ofwhich were of the simp-lest trellis-work of crossedfir-poles, through whichshe could watch the pro-ceedings of the gardenerI without baking herself inj^the sun. Suddenly she| snatched up a green-lined| white umbrella, that had=…
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