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Show SUPERSTITIONS That That Ara riitrll by lh ' .iVJ ot Ilia ilgflj Tommy Atkins ot tha British army .jHJ hu many superstition and faiths u . jjd side that recommended by Oliver j Cromwell to trust In God and keep his powder dry If Tommy la lying awake HJ before reveille Is sounded an I heir" it, HJ cock crow, It Is accepted as a sign at HJ good luck and bis duty ll don cheer- HJ fully during Iho day for he considers HJ bo Is safe not to get Into trouble If, however he should hear a dog bark B before the summons to turn out 1 HJ blown upon the bugle It Is a certain HJ sign ot misfortune and Tommy ' goes B about his duty during the day with a, vacuo sense ot dread and If ho is pun- H Ishcd for any neglect of duty or bre icli of discipline ho puts It down to tho fact that aomebodya wakeful terrier HJ barkod before reveille A soldier scion ot a long Una of sol Hers possessed n bent and battered button which bad HJ been handed down to him from un an- cestor a 8cots Fusilier guardsmsn who H had fought at Talavera and bad been HJ struck by a spent bullet on that very button Succeeding generations of sol- "flj dlers had carried that button about H with them, and It had acted aa a tails HJ man, for none ot them had ever uvea. HJ shot, though often In action Ono car- HJ tied It through the Crimean war, nnd HJ was In the bottost part ot tho battle ol HJ Alma, but came through tha campaign HJ without a scroti h In tha cavalry HJ many men pin their faith to a horses tooth as a talisman against Injury In battle, but It must be the tooth of a horse which has gone uninjured B through action A trooper ot the (lev H tcnttonth tancera roda unscathe I Mm. H sell through tho charge ot Ulundl an J attributes his escape to tbt fsct that ha bad concealed about his person ths tooth of a war horse which had a ir vlved unhurt tho charge ot Ilalaklavn. |