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Show j ANCIENT RUSE. The dispatches from the firing line on the French frontier relate how the j English foidiers screened themselves 'with branches cf trees while dragging their gur.3 to a more favorablf location In tha frr of the. enmv. The ruFe ? piobaMv as ! old as war itlf, for thtre are ircum- erable instances of the srme bind in i hist or v. Tho incident recall th ?T.e j m Macbeth where the me.-enger enters I wi:h the n--ws that the v. nodi -een.-"d j t o move in the d i re--t ion of the ea tb where the n ff right d Uf- o rper r'tP'-'d : t a.A. i Macbeth had been told by th" third apparition to ''fear not. till P.irnam nood do rorre to Dunvnanr. ' ' and as the weed was pcen approach njr readily read-ily accepted it as nn omen of h defeat de-feat prepared to di with lin re,-'---, on his rack. Ths lra'v percenn were soon thrown down anH Macbeth t 11 beneath tho avening swnrd of MaHutf. Per'nap. the Briti-h nffb-er had thn plav of Sha r-.e-npjj rr In rr.iri'l when he irave the r'!'T to advance under rov.-r of the bra r.ches of t n-es. |