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Show W Perhaps the most heroic at- f tempt to keep Christmas in ' thf t?jf conventional fashion under pL J unconventional condU If Hons was that made by the W St late Lord Wolseley, when a Uf young officer, in the trences g g before Sevastopol during the p Crimean war tfxty years ago. jw He and his comrades decided jf fff that the Christmas should t g be honored and that there 5 f should be a plum pudding. . jf TJle "pudding" toa com- jf jfo pounded 0 bijcuit, grease f fruit as could be oft- S 2r tained, the ingredients beinjf f 0 mixed in a fragment of a 0 fa Russian shell. Wrapped in a ffgl cloth, it teas boiled for some g Zf hours, and a tasty reminder fejf 0 the great festival .was ea- jSf fa gerly looked forward to by M - the hungry officers. But before Sr Me pudding was considered 3f jf "coofced" orders came trans- M Hjf ferring Wolseley and his tent m companions (0 a distant part r r 0 tne works. . ' $r JjF SJtould they leave the pud- fef dlnflr until tfteir return or eat jj M VMf were ftun- fi ffry, and the latter course was Sr JF decided upon. TJie "pudding" gf . ftcas ditty' swallowed, and '(Kf away tftey went in obedience g (0 order, late that night Sr tt'o?efey was troubled with J'W infernal disturbances that ne- O Su cessitated the doctor's kindly ministrations, it seemed, said Sjr ffte ufure !eld marsftal, as i f pieces of Russian shell were f rotting aaainst eacfc other inside. It was the only pud- 5 dt'w, the first and last, he jif jjyf ever made. |