Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . PIGTAILS IN TIIK ARMY AND NAVY. {From a xirint by W. M. Craig, in the Ilmj(tl United Service Institution.) Hves would have been saved on active service. The load initself, enough to impede the free motions of a donkey, was soawkwardly placed that the body was cramped, the head forcedforward, the action of the heart impeded; in fact, to use theexpression of an indignant private, the man was half beatenbefore
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . PIGTAILS IN TIIK ARMY AND NAVY. {From a xirint by W. M. Craig, in the Ilmj(tl United Service Institution.) Hves would have been saved on active service. The load initself, enough to impede the free motions of a donkey, was soawkwardly placed that the body was cramped, the head forcedforward, the action of the heart impeded; in fact, to use theexpression of an indignant private, the man was half beatenbefore he came to the scratch. ^ ^ Rifleman Harris, a regimental shoemaker in the Rifle Brigfade, in his Recollections (ed. Curling, p. 26), thus describes the burden laid upon thebacks of the men in the Peninsula. Besides my well-filled kit, there was thegreat-coat rolled on the top, my blanket and camp kettle, my haversack stuffedfull of leather for repairing the mens shoes, together with a hammer and othertools, ships biscuits and beef for three days, my canteen filled with water, myhatchet and rifle, and 80 rounds of cartridge in my pouch. Only the rifle were armed with rif
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