The French went to the right about. We
could see the aigle plain as plain. Stout chaps
they was. We could see their knapsacks, and
then we knowed as they was routed. The
Prooshians fired two pieces of cannon, and
come and formed two ranks. General Blucher
said, "Brave Anglishmen!" and the band played
"God save the King!"

We marched through Waterloo, and lay on
the rushes that the French had laid on the night
before. General Blucher said, "Let the Anglish
have two days' rest, and we will follow the
French up. So we rested two days on the
plains. Louis the Eighteenth passed by us
with his staff and his friends, to go to take
possession of the throne at Paris. I saw him
plain.

I saved two men's lives that day on the field
of Waterloo. The first was an Irishman.
Ever afterwards he would give me part of
anything he had, or all. The second was a Frenchman.
After the victory, as we was going by
the French cannon, he was set on a gun-carriage
with half his foot shot off. A blaguard fellow
of ours loaded his rifle, and swore he'd blow
his brains out. I said, "For shame; don't
hurt the man; his life is as sweet to him as
ourn is to us. The victory's gained; why
should you be a coward?" Our corporal come
up just then, and he said, "Well done,"
and clapped me on the shoulder. The Frenchman
spread out his hands, and cried, "Merci,
merci, monsieur," and asked us if we could give
him some water, as he was very thirsty. We
had nothing to drink ourselves, or would freely
have given some to him.

After our rest we marched for Paris. We
entered Paris at the beginning of July. The
Light Brigade was the first that marched in.
We pitched our tents in the Champs Elysées;
and we stayed there till November. Our
brigade, the artillery, and part of the Tenth
Hussars, was all the troops that was quartered
inside the city. Two troops of the hussars
used to come in every morning to relieve two
other troops that used to go out. I recollect
well the cricket-matches our officers used to
have on the Champs Elysées; it was beautiful!
In November we went out, twelve miles from
Paris, to take up winter quarters. We stayed
there only a fortnight, and then had the route
for England. We came home by way of Calais,
landed in England at four o'clock in the morning,
and went back to Shorncliffe, our old
depot.

At Shorncliffe I was transferred to Captain
George Lewis Gray's company, and was made
corporal. I recollect well the Christmas dinner
that we had that winter at Shorncliffe. Captain
Gray was a most excellent man.

In two or three weeks' time we sailed from
Dover for Ireland—uncommon rough it was—
and landed at Waterford on the 16th of March,
the day before St. Patrick's Day. From Waterford
we marched to Dublin, where we lay two
years and six weeks. The citizens of Dublin was
very fond of our regiment. On leaving Dublin
we went to Birr, in the King's County. Here
I finished soldiering, and I will tell you how it
came about.

I left the army, not because I disliked soldiering,
but because there was something drawed
me home. Partly my gran'father, who was
getting old; partly the young woman I spoke
about just now. Before I left home with the
recruiting-party, she went with me into a
neighbour's house and took me by the hand, and said
she would never marry any one else unless she
heard that I was dead. I was anxious to get
home; and, as I was only 'listed for seven years,
my time—allowing for the two years given us for
Waterloo—was up on the 13th of November. I
then received my discharge. The colonel, Colonel
Duffy, and the sergeant-major, both wished me
to stop, although I was half an inch under the
standard. But I felt drawed home, and so I left,
with a good character, in company with another
man, a Welshman, in the middle of November.
I wasn't entitled to any pension, because I only
'listed for seven year, and wasn't lucky enough
to get a scratch of any kind. Our passage was
paid to Bristol, and I reached home early in
December, after having been, away more than
seven years.

I was now twenty-six year old. I found the
young woman I spoke about, although she had
promised me so faithful, had become entangled
with another young man, and was engaged to be
married to him. But she was never married to
either of us. She was taken ill whilst we was
in Ireland, and on the very day that she was to
have been married to him, she died. I happened
to meet her brother a year or two ago, about
'63 or '64 it was, and we was a-talking of her.
He said, when she was a-dying she talked of
nothing but me.

THE PAUPER.

My gran'father had a slate-quarry. I worked
for him for five years, when he became
bedridden, and soon afterwards died. After that I
worked for one man seventeen years, and then
for another for eleven years more.

I married in 1824. We had six children;
three are alive now, two sons and a daughter,
but where they are I don't know. I haven't
seen or heard of my sons for years. In 1841 I
lost my sight; leastways, lost it so far as I was
unable to continue my work. I had been a
teacher in the Sunday-school for twelve years,
and was obliged to give that up. That was a
great grief to me, as I used to love to be among
the children. Two years later I lost my wife,
and two years further on I lost my eldest
daughter. After my wife died, my daughter as
is alive now kept my house for ten years, when
she was ruined by a young man who had
promised to marry her, and got a house ready. She
had always been a good girl up till then, but
that seemed to throw her quite off her mind, and
she didn't seem to care what she did or what
became of her. Ever since then she has been a
constant grief and trouble to me, and the
last I heard of her was that she was in jail,
for sleeping out in a cowhouse. After I lost