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No. NVIIL AWILETAM 1" may be fairly said that Dr. Russell 1s the aceredited father of a professional family which, though nccessarily limited m 2 | the number ol 1ts sons, pos- A gesses the world as s debtors, The dodging of bullets and - shellsg - the
cornering of oursclves i some haven of charging of
refuge from the ferocious maddencd horses and men i shorte the participation in all the pomp and clreum- stance of glorious war,” 15 not run after by the average man. our known war correspondents.The remems- hrance of this as T ascended i the liftwhich delivered me at the door of his flat Victoria Street was sugeestive of the un- folding of o hifc ol the deepest mterest. Nor was I disappointed. I spent some hours with - Dr. Russcll, and when 1t came to “Crood - hve,” he asked: = Have vou gol what you want 2
Iwasin earnest when T asked him 1f he could cut out ten v twenty o vears ol his hite, for my load of dehghtful information was so great that feared the space at my disposal couldd not hold icall This reply was: oAb will- ingly, willingly — if T could. The burden of - my vears s heavier than the load of mcidents vou are carrving away with vou.”
Dr. Russcll 15 of medium heighte strongly built, wearing a white moustache, and
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possessing a head of wavy, silver hair. He s now lunce from injuries received by his horse Talling on him in the Transvaal. He ok me from room to room, and as he narraced the litde incidents associated with his treasures, it was all done quictly, impres- sively free from any boastfulness. Tror he wished me to understand that though his
lite had often been in danger, 1 scenes where men won - great names for heroie deceds and gave up their lives for thew country, he was only a camp follower
and nothing more in the nine campaigns which he has seen he ehronicled history, he dil not make it. T hope this Tittle article will prove a courteous contradiction to this.
You pass by many articles of rarity i the cor- ridor on yourway to the dining- room - cabinets of battle licld rehies, jade bowls, Indian and Fayp- tan ware, o great [Tindu dertyy once the property ol Daince Mahdo, the Oude Tlook- dare an Indian chicl ;s recreation and sportarc represented by cun-cases and a huge bundle of (shing rods the corner. Here on a table arc half-a-dozen cigar cascs, onc o of which, with silver clasps, 15 from the Prince of Wales, as a sou- venir of the visit to India in 1875-0, i which Dr. Russcll acted as Honorary Pri- vate seeretary o 1L RCFL D some exquisite cups and bowls of - bedree work from Pucknow ;s and over one ol the doors 15
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