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Show An Amusing Breach. (Philadelphia Ledger.) General Ian Hamilton, now visiting in this country, figures in one of the best campaig-n stories' of the Boer war. The incident happened during the campaign cam-paign east, of Bloemfontein, when Hamilton Ham-ilton had command of an. assorted column, col-umn, half Canadian, half regular, that composed the extreme right wing of Roberts' army. General .Hamilton reviewed the Canadian Ca-nadian infantry one day in a small village for the purpose of telling them they must stop the plundering for which they were so notorious that they had earned the nickname of "the Thousand Thou-sand Thieves." The column had just drawn up and was waiting for Hamilton to begin- the review when a ragged rooster ran out from a hut and across the front of th line. A kind of shivtr ran through the volunteers. Suddenly a private left the ranks and took after the rooster. 1 "Halt!" shouted Hamilton. The soldier ran on. He shortly overtook over-took the rooster .end turned back, wringing the Heck of the fowl. As he passed the general he noted the fierce scowl on his face. The soldier wa, an Irish boy from Toronto and. not easily daunted, but this time he temporized. Throwing the defunct rooster at the general's feet, he said: "There, now; I'll tache ye t' halt whin the general says so!" . History records that . the. column laughed and the, general pmiled. Also that the soldier got only, two' days in "quad" for one of the most bare-faced breaches of discipline in the records of the most irregular corps in the army. j |