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272 NOTICES. OF BOOKS.
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little carried All it y over is so to ill the , it hosp prevents ital to wait Mrs . there D . th for inking the evening so much burials of the . loss Poor of remaining Herbert as treasure she else . would He has . She fever is and so d anxious ysentery , poor , and thing his life , about seems hang her last ing
on a thread . >? Not deaths alone , but births took place in the midst of this
terrible scene ; and several " siege babies " "will be able in future years to boast that they first drew breath under the care of the
_gallant garrison at Lucknow . Meanwhile , every day brought some deaths ainong the adults . On August 4 , the lady writes : — " One
of the gunners . was shot dead in the verandah , this morning . When I came upstairs to dress , I saw the poor fellow lying there in a pool
of blood . " On the 5 th : — " A soldier of tlie 32 nd was shot in hospital this morning , while sitting on a comrade ' s , bed / ' On the
_II tn , the [ Residency was so injured by the incessant fire , tliat part of the roof fell in and buried six men , only two were dug- out alive .
All this was in the heat of the Indian summer ; and at last the churchyard became so full of shallow graves , that it became unsafe
from effluvia . All this time the clergyman had to go out to bury the dead , and in performing that sacred duty was exposed to constant
shots , some of which , ploughed up the earth , round about him ; but lie never seemed to hesitate by night or by day .
On the 25 th of September the little garrison was joined by Outram ' s relieving force , who fought their way through the streets
of Lucknow , and dashed into the Residency . " The big , roughbearded soldiers were seizing the little children out of our arms ,
kissing them with tears rolling down their cheeks , and thanking God they had come in time to save them from the fate of those at
Cawnpore . " When the little band of relief leffe that fatal town they were 3 , 000 strong , but " they had a tremendous day ' s fight to
get in here ; every inch of the ground through the city was contended , and the loss of life has been terrible , some thirty officers _,
and 500 rank and file killed and wounded . " But the force was not strong enough to raise the siege , and it
continued as close as ever , with treble more mouths to feed out of
the scanty provision . Only , the garrison had a little more room in
272 Notices. Of Books.
272 NOTICES . OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/56/
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