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A RUDK AWAKENING
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the balls passed well over their heads, thought that they
had nothing more to fear from the enemy's artillery, and
labouring under this delusion, they boldly approached the
Just at that moment the garrison fired a few well-
glacis.
aimed volleys of grape-shot which annihilated the rash
assailants, who learnt to their cost that a cannon can be
aimed both above and below its true level. The author
adds that the palanquin of a Brahmin who held a high com-
mand in the Rajah's army, and who had approached a little
too close to the fortress, was struck by a cannon ball and
shattered to pieces. The Brahmin got off scot-free with
only a fright but his alarm was so great that he ran off as
fast as he could, and, when he found himself in a place of
safety, swore by his three hundred and thirty million gods
that never again would he venture within ten miles of any
place inhabited by those dogs of Feringhis.
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