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"An officer was resting and enjoying a nap after an exceedingly hard
morning's drill. A flash of lightning first struck and doubled up his
scabbard and thence passed to his mirror hanging close by, smashing it
as the enclosed photo shows. I need hardly say this worthy gentleman,
awaking so suddenly from his slumbers, scarcely knew for some time
whether he was in China, South Africa, or good Old England."--Mr. F. E.
Robinson, Sylvester House, Colchester.