occasionally snorting, striking the ground with his hoofs, and ready to spring after me whenever I should move. Ever as I changed the attitude of my body, he would start forward again, until I could almost touch him with the muzzle of my gun. These manœuvres on his part suggested to me an experiment, and I wondered that I had not thought of it before. I was not long in resolving to carry it out. I was armed with a stout hunting-knife, of that sort known as a bowie; it was pointed as sharp as a needle; and could I only have ventured near enough to the bull, I would soon have settled the dispute with him. The idea now occurred to me of converting my bowie into a lance by splicing it upon the barrel of my gun. With this I had hopes of being able to reach my powerful assailant without coming within the range either of his hoofs or horns. The lance was soon made, a pair of buckskin garters which I wore furnishing me with thongs. My gun happened to be a long rifle; and the knife, spliced firmly to the muzzle, rendered it a formidable weapon, so that in a few minutes I stood in a better attitude than I had assumed for hours before. The affair soon came to an issue. As I had anticipated, by showing myself a little to one side of the tree, the bull sprang forward, and I was enabled, by a dexterous thrust, to plant the knife between his ribs. It entered his heart, and the next moment I saw him rolling over, and kicking the crimsoned snow around him in the struggles of death.

I had scarcely completed my victory, when a loud whoop sounded in my ears, and looking up, I saw my friend making towards me across the open ground; he had completed his chase. By his aid the bull

was disposed of, and being now satisfied with our day's sport, we commenced shuffling homeward.-Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.

Heroism at Waterloo.

While Kempt's brigade was bravely charging down the slope on the right, the heads of the leading brigades of Alix's and Marcognet's divisions, with conspicuous gallantry, and amidst shouts of triumph, crowned the crest of the Allied position on the left, crossing the Wavre road and straggling hedge, by which their order had been in some degree disturbed. Alix's leading brigade, having passed clear of Kempt's left, found itself unopposed by infantry in its front, but the head of Marcognet's column, after passing close by the right of Captain von Rettberg's Hanoverian foot-battery, from which it had received a very destructive fire during its advance, beheld Pack's brigade approaching to meet it. The three Scotch regiments, the 1st Royals, the 42nd and 92nd Highlanders, under the animating sounds of their native pibroch, moved steadily on with the noble mien and gallant bearing of men bent upon upholding, at any sacrifice, the honour and glory of their country. The 44th regiment, which formed the left of the brigade, having its front covered by Best's Hanoverians, remained in support upon the summit or knoll immediately above, and on the left of the hollow in which the rest of the brigade had been posted. That portion of the French column which had by this time crossed the hedge was in perfect order, and presented a bold and determined front. It was opposed to the 42nd and 92nd Highlanders, but principally to the latter regiment. As the brigade approached the column, it received from it a fire, which, however, it did not return, but continued to advance steadily until it had arrived within twenty or thirty yards' distance, when the 92nd and 42nd Highlanders, who were more directly in front of the column, threw into the mass a concentrated fire, most destructive in its effects. The French were staggered by the shock, but speedily recovering themselves, began to reply with great spirit to the fire of their opponents, when the latter received the order to charge; but at this very moment Ponsonby's brigade

came up. Colonel Muter had just before perceived the raised cocked-hat,* when he instantly ordered and conducted the advance of the brigade. The Scots Greys had been ordered to support the Royals and Inniskillings; but having moved down into lower ground on the left, to get more under cover from the enemy's cannonade, and subsequently advanced in left rear of those two regiments, they beheld in their direct front the head of Marcognet's division establishing itself on the height. Their course from that moment was obvious. They soon got up into line, or nearly so, with the remainder of the brigade, and joined in the general charge. Upon Ponsonby's brigade coming up with the infantry, it passed through the latter as well and as quickly as it could: in some instances, intervals were made for the dragoons by the wheeling of companies; in others, by that of subdivisions or of sections; but generally the passage was effected in rather an irregular manner; and, under the circumstances, this was unavoidable.

As the Scots Greys passed through, and mingled with the Highlanders, the enthusiasm of both corps was extraordinary. They mutually cheered. "Scotland for ever!" was their war-shout. The smoke in which the head of the French column was enshrouded had not cleared away, when the Greys dashed into the mass. So eager was the desire, so strong the determination of the Highlanders to aid their compatriots in completing the work so gloriously begun, that many were seen holding on by the stirrups of the horsemen, while all rushed forward, leaving none but the disabled in their rear. The

*This signal was not made by Sir William Ponsonby himself, but by his aide-de-camp, Captain Evans (afterwards Sir De Lacy Evans, K. C.B., Lieut.-General in the Spanish service). The former was mounted on a secondary untrained horse, which became restive, and startled by the fire and noise that prevailed at the very moment the general had decided upon advancing the brigade. His cloak being loose, flew off, and he dismounted for an instant for the purpose of restoring it to its place; it was while he was thus engaged that he directed Captain Evans to make the signal in question.

leading portion of the column soon yielded to this infuriated onset; the remainder, which was yet in the act of ascending the exterior slope, appalled by the sudden appearance of cavalry at a moment when, judging by the sound of musketry-fire in front, they had naturally concluded that it was with infantry alone they had to contend, were hurled back in confusion by the impetus of the shock. The dragoons, having the advantage of the descent, appeared to mow down the mass, which, bending under the pressure, quickly spread itself outwards in all directions. Yet, in that mass were many gallant spirits, who could not be brought to yield without a struggle; and these fought bravely to the death; not that they served to impede, but only to mark more strongly the course of the impetuous torrent as it swept wildly past them, presenting to the eye of the artistic observer those streaks which, arising incidentally from such partial and individual contests, invariably characterize the track of a charge of cavalry. Within that mass, too, was borne the imperial eagle of the 45th regiment, proudly displaying on its banner the names of Jena, Austerlitz, Wagram, Eylau, and Friedland-fields in which this regiment had covered itself with glory, and acquired the distinguished title of "The Invincibles." A devoted band encircled the sacred standard, which attracted the observation, and excited the ambition, of a daring and adventurous soldier named Ewart, a serjeant of the Greys. After a desperate struggle, evincing on his part great physical strength combined with extraordinary dexterity, he succeeded in capturing the cherished trophy. The gallant fellow was directed to proceed with it to Brussels, where he was received with acclamations by thousands who came forward to welcome and congratulate him.*

Without pausing for a moment to re-form, those of the Greys who had forced their way through, or on either

Early in the following year, Serjeant Ewart was appointed to an Ensigncy in the 3rd Royal Veteran battalion.

flank of the mass, rushed boldly onward against the leading supporting column of Marcognet's right brigade. This body of men, lost in amazement at the suddenness, the wildness of the charge, and its terrific effect upon their countrymen on the higher ground in front, had either not taken advantage of the very few moments that intervened, by preparing an effectual resistance to cavalry, or, if they attempted the necessary formation, did so when there was no longer time for its completion. Their outer files

certainly opened a fire which proved very destructive to their assailants; but to such a degree had the impetus of the charge been augmented by the rapidly increasing descent of the slope, that these brave dragoons possessed as little of the power as of the will to check their speed, and they plunged down into the mass with a force that was truly irresistible. Its foremost ranks driven back with irrepressible violence, the entire column tottered for a moment, and then sank under the overpowering wave. Hundreds were crushed to rise no more; and hundreds rose again but to surrender to the victors; who speedily swept their prisoners to the rear, while the Highlanders secured those taken from the leading column.

Along the remainder of the line the charge of the "Union brigade" was equally brilliant and successful. On the right, the Royal dragoons, by inclining somewhat to their left, during the advance, brought their centre squadron to bear upon the head of the leading column of Alix's division, which had crossed the hedges lining the Wavre road, and being unchecked, was rapidly advancing across the crest of the ridge. Suddenly its loud shouts of triumph ceased as it perceived the close approach of cavalry up the interior slope of the Anglo-allied position. Whether it was actuated by a consciousness of danger from the disorder necessarily occasioned in its rear by the passage through the banked-up hedges, by a dread of being caught in the midst of any attempt to assume a formation better adapted for effective resistance, or of being entirely cut off from all support, it is difficult to decide, but the head of this column certainly appeared to be seized with a panic. Having thrown out an irregular

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