and 'the whole military establishment' of Montreal formed up in the barrack squareone hundred and thirty officers and men, all told.

A great two-storied barrack for the officers of the line had been erected within the stockade, and two magazines of heavy timber.

Here, on Monte Torrero, stood an old convent, now turned into a barrack.

The buildings have no pretense to architectural beauty, and consist of barrack-like houses built around a quadrangle.

I looked into the others to seeinto your great barrack, and into Marcos' room at the end of the balcony.

After three years' service down the sewers or at the smelting works, our men of leisure would no longer raise their wail over national degeneracy or the need of maintaining the standard of hardihood by barrack-square drill.

But the evil fate which ever hangs over the competitions of genius was baleful even here, and the barrack-like edifice of Gütner was preferred.

This became one of the ceremonies of our barrack-life.

The whole of the harem courts of the palace were swept off the face of the earth to make way for a hideous British barrack, without those who carried out this fearful piece of vandalism thinking it even worth while to make a plan of what they were destroying, or making any records of the most splendid palace in the world.

Being now situated in the midst of a British barrack yard, they look like precious stones torn from their settings in some exquisite piece of oriental jeweler's work and set at random in a bed of the commonest plaster.

"The Plain Tales From the Hills" and the best of his "Barrack-Room Ballads" were inspired by his youthful association with the large military garrison at this point.

And, lest the spacious H. of C. should fail to hold sufficiently the lot of air respired by me, said I, "A soldier I will benot one of Foot (that's Infantry), nor yet the reg'lar Cavalry, for barrack-life will not suit me, yet ride I must the high gee-gee;" so I decided straight to be an officer of Yeomanry.

"That fire-eating, swashbuckling soldier, with his blustering barrack-room ways.

There is now an up-to-date hotel, connected with the railway company, but if I were to go there again and the old hotel was habitable, I know I should go where I first stayed, and where we occupied a huge barrack-like room charged on our bill as "habitaciones preferentes," the state chamber.

To stamp violently upon obscure newspapers nobody had heard of before and send a printer to prison, and to give thereby a flaming advertisement to the possible use of soldiers in civil conflicts and set every barrack-room talking, may be permissible, but it is certainly very ill-advised.

They had been forced to abandon their homes and their professions, and yet during the whole length of the war they found no higher duty to do for France than sweep out a barrack-yard or clean out a military latrine.

But that did not save them from the tyranny of a sous-officier, who called them the hardest names his tongue could find when they made any faux pas in their barrack drill, and swore as terribly as those in Flanders when they did not obey his commands with the lightning rapidity of soldiers who have nothing more to learn.

The ponderous pilum, and the heavy, straight sword of the infantry were exchanged in the barrack-yard for drill-weapons of twice their weight; and so perfectly were the detail and regularity of actual service carried out in their daily discipline, that, as an ancient writer has remarked, their sham-fights and reviews differed only in bloodshed from real battles.

The clumsy rustic is soon licked into shape, and leaves his barrack, to return to the fields, a soldier and a more self-reliant man.

KASER, ARTHUR L. Barrack room fun, by Harlan Hayford, pseud.

Barrack room fun.

"Why, don't you see," explained the next door lady, "our back windows open upon the barrack yard.

The most casual observer would have declared that he could never have seen the inside of a barrack-yard.

The most casual observer would have declared that he was acquainted with every inch of the barrack-yard.

Such letters, the evidence alleged, had in some cases existed, but had been lost, burnt, eaten by white ants, or written on a sheet of blotting paper or the whitewashed wall of a barrack room.