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Show The llll Muakets. An Illinois colonel felt It hi duty to praise thesa doublo acting arm. Maid be: "In platoon firing with tha Belgian musket, I can tell what I cannot with any other arm, and that Is, bow many pieces have been flrd." "How can you tell tbatt "Oh, I count tb m'n on the ground. It never deceive ma. It is 'flra, and fall back,' flat. "Onn of these Belgian muskets will kick lika a mule, and burst with tht greatest facility. Several soldiers In our Illinois regiments hav been killed in this way. Tho bayonet, too, i a novelty a soft iron affair, apparently designed to coil round tha enemy, a it Is introduced, thus taking him prisoner. "Anecdotes, I'oetry and Incidents of tha AVar. |