Punch (44.1863)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[May 16, 1863.

PASSAGES nr THE LIFE OF A VOLUNTEER.-HOW PRIVATE GAWKY EXPENDED HIS RIFLE.


And the unfeigned Consternation of the
Lieutenant and Ensign.

The Drill over, his Comrades forsake him
—They are not going his way!

In his Despair he is just thinking of the
Serpentine, when Fortune .sends a Friend,

Who offers to take the Remains of his Rifle

HOME IN THE RECESSES OF HIS TRAP, TILL IT IS
CONVENIENT FOR HIM TO CALL FOR THEM,

Which he does soon after, and Removes them in the Dead
of the Night to Head-quarters.

He afterwards has an Interview
with the Sergeant-Major, settles
a Little Bill, receives a New
Rifle from Store, and then dis-
misses himself a Wiser and a
Better (Rifle) Man.