Deseret Evening News | 1900-03-03 | Page 11 | Superstitions

That bat Ar AN rI b tile Soldiers of 01 the Queen Tommy AtkIns of the British arm army has many superstitions and faiths be beBIde beside side BIde that recommended b by Oliver Oller Crom trait In God and hi his pow powder powder der dr dry It If Tommy Tomm Is lying awake before reo re ell Is sounded fOunded and hears a cock crow It 11 Is IB accepted us as a sign ot of good luck and his duty Is done cheerfully during the day dllY for he considers he Is safe lafe not notto notto to get into Inlo trouble It If however ho he should hear n a dog bark before th sum summons moos mons to turn out Is II blown upon the bu bugle bugie gle gie It Is a 11 certain sign Ign of misfortune and Tommy goes joes about his duty dur durIng lag Ing the Iho day with a 11 vague lIgue sense of dread drell and IC ho he Is punished for any neglect ot of duty duly or broach breach of discipline he puts pub 1 It down to the fact that some wakeful terrier barked before reo re ellie ellieA A soldier scion ot of a long line ot of aol possessed pos n a bent end battered button bUllon which had been handed down to hire him from un an ancestor a Scots who had fought at and had been struck by b a spent bullet on that very ery button bullon Succeeding gen gee ot of soldiers had carried that button with them and it had acted as a talisman for none of them had ever been bem shot though often otten In nelon One carried It through the Crimean war and arul was In the hottest part ot of the battle batlle of the Alma but bUI carne came through the cam palm without a scratch In the cavalry cavall many men pin their faith to II a hors horses tooth a sc I n a talisman against a injury In battle but it II must be bethe bethe the tooth of a horse which has haa gone un unInjured unInjured Injured through action A trooper of the Seventeenth lancers rode unscathed himself through the charge of oC and his hll escape to the fact that lint h he had concealed about hi hIs verson the tooth of a war horse horae which had sur ur Ivee unhurt the charge charae of