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APPENDIX, N° I. 
A soldier's step is an archine ' — in wheeling, an 
archine and a half. Keep your distances well ! 
Soldiers, join elbows in front ! First rank 
three steps from the second — in marching, two ! 
Give the drum room ! 
Keep your ball three days, — it may happen, 
for a whole campaign, when lead 1 2 cannot be had! 
Fire seldom — but fire sure! 
Push hard with the bayonet ! The ball will 
lose it& way — the bayonet never ! The ball is a 
fool — the bayonet a hero ! 
Stab once ! and off' with the Turk from the 
bayonet ! Even when he’s dead, you may get a 
scratch from his sabre. 
If the sabre be near your neck, dodge back 
one step, and push on again. 
Stab the second ! — stab the third ! A hero 
will stab half-a-dozen. 
Be sure your ball's in your gun! 
If three attack you, stab the first, fire on the 
second, and bayonet the third! — this seldom 
happens. 
In the attack, there ’s no time to load again. 
When you fire, take aim at their guts; and 
fire about twenty balls. — Buy lead from your 
economy 3 — it costs little! 
(1) The Russian archine is twenty-eight inches. 
(2) 1 he Russian soldiers buy their own lead. 
(3) The treasury of the Mess. 
