104 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
The exhausted men would form four deep, and the reliev- 
ing line would form four deep also, and advance and pass 
between the blank files. 
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So the word was passed along the shattered line, “ Lie 
down, eighty-eighth, and let the Marines pass to the front.” 
This was done. The Marines suffered fearfully, but 
accomplished the relief and covered the retreat. For this 
service they were awarded a Laurel-leaf wreath to be worn 
on their buttons and caps.” Col. Holland adds, “I wore 
it myself for twenty-six years.” 
And so, for a hundred and twenty-six years these 
soldiers have kept up their unreasoning quarrel! In this 
interval vast changes have taken place, for a zew England 
has grown up on the east of the Atlantic, in addition to 
the older New England in the West; and the two are 
increasingly in unison with each other, until one may well 
say of them, nearly in the words of the Fritiof’s Saga: 
“Who shall part you 
Ye who ze’er should parted be!” 
