Captain George Warwick Hunt 



the man of the serious position in which he stood, his con- 

 duct having placed the force in jeopardy of an attack from 

 the enemy, and that he should report him for being asleep 

 at his post, the penalty of which was death, and that he 

 certainly would be shot. 



At daybreak the sergeant implored for mercy ; but " Jonas " 

 was not seemingly to be moved. Remembering, however, that 

 the former was quite a young fellow, he led him to suppose he 

 was going to report him, and so kept him in deadly fear until 

 daybreak was past, when he told the man he hoped it was 

 a lesson he would never forget. 



"Sir," said the sergeant, with tears in his eyes, "I shall 

 never forget you and what you have done ; and if ever I can 

 repay you the debt of gratitude I owe you, I will." 



His words were not lightly spoken, and when in the thick 

 of the melh^ "Jonas " dismounted, the sergeant jumped off his 

 charger, and with his sword was hacking away at the traces of 

 the gun carriage, when three Cossacks galloped down on them, 

 one of them making a direct thrust at Hunt. Fortunately for 

 the latter, the sergeant saw the peril and, jumping between, 

 received his death wound. 



" Sir," he said, as he lay dying, " / have paid my debt!' 



It was quite characteristic of the man that " Jonas " Hunt was 

 the only subaltern in the Cavalry Division who never missed a 

 single day's duty throughout the war, and it is said, what was 

 equally probable, that he volunteered for every perilous 

 enterprise during the campaign. 



On his retirement from the Service a few years after the 

 Peace of 1856 — a step, by the way, which he never ceased to 

 regret — " Jonas " Hunt devoted himself exclusively to sport of all 

 kinds, with a preference for race-riding, a pursuit for which his 

 fearless nature eminently fitted him, with the result that before 



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