Show A Visit to Waterloo M Jules Claretie the administrator of the Comedic Francaise paid a visit shortly short-ly before his arrival in London to the battlefield bat-tlefield of Waterloo It was seventyeight yeais ago last Saturday that the battle was fought yet 11 Claretie was still able to glean something in the locality from actual eye witnesses of that mighty historic his-toric event In a little wine shop called the Belle Alliance where Wellington and Blucher according to an inscription met and saluted after their victory he found two old women engaged in darning stockings They appeared to take very little notice of strangers but on being questioned the elder of the tVO declared that she was over 80 years of age I was 12 years old she said at the time of the battle 1 was living with Iny parents at Plancenoit We took refuge all of us on the Friday in the woods with the cattle It was on a Sunday they found it It was just after my first communion and on the day of St Donnat a saint in whose honor there is a pilgrimage in the neighborhood When all was over we wont out and saw dead bodies everywhere At night after the battle there 31 storm The bodies became swollen through the rain and there were fears of a pestilence They were buried heaps with dry branches between each layer and then the branches were set fire to or quicklime was poured in the trenches London JYeics |