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then deploy into line. That operation at last 

 being effected, three guns were unlimbered 

 on each flank, and the whole awaited the 

 approach of the great man. At last he came, 

 mounted on a small ewe-necked white horse, 

 or rather pony, looking very like a goat, and, 

 surrounded by a " Brilliant Staff," he ad- 

 vanced towards the centre, when the word 

 " Present arms," being given, round turned 

 the little horse and left the great man on the 

 ground. They then marched past and then 

 home, and we returned to our ship, but I 

 could not help comparing what I had seen 

 with my old regiment, the Forty-third, and 

 thinking it would not be much for them to 

 do to walk over them all. We shifted our 

 berth on board a Falmouth sailing-packet, 

 and, after a very fast passage, arrived in 

 England on the same day of the year I left 

 it, having been a wanderer in America for 

 six years. 



THE END. 



