178 NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER 



when the cloud cleared away his feet were where they had been 

 before ; he had just finished wiping the dust from the lenses and 

 was lifting the glasses to look again. I asked him as to the effect 

 of double canister at close quarters. He said : " It seemed as if 

 the air was full of old clothes." This man has ever been to me 

 the true type of the soldier. 



