' The Charge of the Light Brigade' i 3 nob by any means the besb of the iate Lord Tennyaon'a poems, but ib is perhaps the best known. A correspondent now travel ling in Russia recently met and talked with a Bteward, Ivan lvanovitch, who went through the Crimean war, and was wounded ab Balaclava when tho famou3 charge occurred. Thia Russian steward said of it:

' We were sorry for thorn, they wero such fine fellows, and had _uch splendid horses. Ib was the maddest thing that waa ever done. They broke through our lines, book our artillery, and then, instead of capburing our guns and making off with thorn, bhey wenb for us. I had been in bhe charge of bhe Heavy Brigade in bho morning, and was slightly wounded. We had all unsaddled, and were very tired. Suddenly we were bold, *' the English arecoming." MyColone waa very angry, and ordered hia men to give noquartor. I was lying ab some distance wibh my wound bandaged when I saw them coming. They came on magnificently. We thought thoy were drunk from the way they held their lances. Instead of holding bhem under their armpits they waved them in the air, and of course thov were easier to guard against like that. The mon were mad, sir. They never seemed to think of the tremendous odds against them, or of the fnghtrul carnage that had taken placo in their ranks ia the course of that ioDg des perate ride. They dashed in among us shouting, cheering, and cursing. I never saw anything like it. They seamed per fectly irresistible, and our fellows were quite demoralised.'

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