A Canadian Vengeance

[From the Bulletm.J If you want to hoar yarns, of the sort that never get into the papers, the convalescent camp at Pretoria is the place to hear them. There are all .sorts there—Austra lians chafing to get out, and Tom mies hoping to stay in ; Canadians with their broad-brimmed huts, the crown dented in on four sides; Yeomanry, commonly known as "De Wet's Own " ; Guards,, Boyal Ar tillery, Lancers—all sorts, in fact. They have a row of white stones round the place, and military police to keep you from passing beyond them. In i guch a mixed crowd it is not like bo ing with your own lot, and you must according sing pit n 1!. The " M.P.'s " have the best euu of the stick, and if they do not catch you when you try to get out for an evening in town they do when "you are coming back, so it is all the same ; you are up for " office " the dei'anlters' call goes in the •morning. It makes you tired to do "Nothing but sit on a garden chair and ■watch the fire-flies of a night, while your corjps maybe going out on the veldt again: any day. But yoi near plenty df yarns. There was a Canadian one night holding forth to me,on the pusill animity of the British in general, and #f General Hutton in particular. " V^'dn't let us help ourselves to a few chickens," he said; "called us gar-clam lootin' redskins, next door to it. Don't think it made much' difference to the chickens, pkrd. There ain't too many chickens left in this section, and I guess a few came outf way-" _  Had he Heard of the two Canadians who^We caught re-selling rifles to; thtf litters, and who received a sentence of ten years apiece for it ? **c *""** They had gone off from Iheir column in!the promiscuous way peculiar to colonials, and had issued receipts signed "Lord Roberts" for rifles, which they had sold back to the enemy. They had at { length been caught, and one specific charge, of felling two Mausers for £8 was sheeted home to'thdm. "Now, wasn't it a tfar-dam Bittf thing to do, stranger?" Was his comment. 