AFTER ONE OF THE BATTLES.
AFTER one of the battles in the terrible war in South Africa two wounded men were brought into the hospital. One of them was a Briton, the other a Boer. Each had had an arm shot to pieces. The arms were cut off in the same place by the surgeon. The two men were laid upon cots close together. When Tommy (every common English soldier is called Tommy Atkins) saw the Boer near him suffering from his wound, he called the nurse and asked her to take the Boer something from his case of supplies. “Tell him,” said Tommy, “that I sent it.” The nurse did as she was asked. The wounded Boer was so affected by the little kindness from his fellow-sufferer, who had an hour before been his supposed enemy, that he broke down and cried like a child. Tommy also gave way and cried, and the nurse who was caring for them both had to hurry away to keep from joining them in their tears. How sad it is that war should bring such men as these to treat each other as enemies.—Angel of Peace.