. Addiscombe, its heroes and men of note; by Colonel H. M. With an introduction by Lord Roberts of . r of courseour names were not in the list which Squasher had withhim, of those permitted to visit Croydon that afternoon; andif we made a detour, or fell back till he had got over thebridge or some way on, we should have lost the table, for thosebehind would have passed us. As it happened to be a rainyday, and a shower was still falling, Squasher, to protect him-self, had put on his cloak. I may here mention that he wassomewhat deaf. Well, on seeing him I said to S—, Whatsh
. Addiscombe, its heroes and men of note; by Colonel H. M. With an introduction by Lord Roberts of . r of courseour names were not in the list which Squasher had withhim, of those permitted to visit Croydon that afternoon; andif we made a detour, or fell back till he had got over thebridge or some way on, we should have lost the table, for thosebehind would have passed us. As it happened to be a rainyday, and a shower was still falling, Squasher, to protect him-self, had put on his cloak. I may here mention that he wassomewhat deaf. Well, on seeing him I said to S—, Whatshall we do.^ He replied, Leave him to me, and we dou-bled on as silently as possible. When just at the top of thebridge S— got at Squasherss cloak tail, lifted it up over hisshako and bonneted him, and we then ran as fast as we couldinto the field by the Railway Inn and straight across to theKings Arms. By the time he recovered from the shock wewere nearly out of his sight, and he was unable to identifyus. We managed to get back by the next parade hour with-out being discovered, and gave Squasher a wide berth for. ^ o 16 242 ADDIS COMBE the next few days, and wlien I ventured to chaff him on thesubject, he got very angry and said, Oh! I thought youwas one of them. I knowed your run, 1 did, for you was in mysquad, but 1 couldnt swear to you. lie never knew who itwas that bonneted him. It was too serious a thing to dis-close. The use made of the ditch outside the rampart, for the pur-pose of introducing illicit beer and other materials for feastinginto the barracks, may here be alluded to. The ditch extendedfrom near the lower lodge close up to No i Barrack, and acadet at the bottom of the ditch was not visible from thegrounds. A cadet writes, A genial comrade, M—, and myselfcarried a gigantic stone jar filled with beer into the ditch. Iwas deputed (by the tossing of coin) to reconnoitre and seeif Squasher or any other sergeant was anywhere on the was not, so M— an
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