of one than in another. The programme was varied. It is quite impossible to begin to give a list of the private courtesies shown individuals. The battalion arrived on Sunday morning. On that evening the theatres were opened to them, private houses were open to them, nothing was closed to them, except the boat where the battalion was quartered, and that only to those who got in after midnight and had to make peace with the officer of the guard. In connection with that idea the following bit of conversation between a belated private and the officer of the guard is interesting.

Officer: "Why did you overstay your pass?"

Private; "Couldn't help it."

Officer: "Have to try the guard house with you then!" Private: "That's pretty rough!"

I come

Officer (Sharply) "What's pretty rough?" Private: "Well now look here, Lieutenant. down here to New Orleans as a guest of the city. Received by the Mayor and City council. Citizens treat me kindly. Influential citizen-State Senator or assistant Govenor or rich planter or something like that—invites me to his house the first pop. I go. Am introduced to his charming family. Behaved beautifully. Did the regiment credit. Asked to come again. Start for home. Got there a little late. Forget all about the pass. Corporal of the guard grabs me. You lock me up. Dine with the Govenor and get locked up because I'm too polite to leave before the proper time. That's what I call

pretty rough?"

If the men did not dine with the Govenor every day, they were just as kindly treated and probably had just as good dinners. On Monday the King came, and the magnificence of that event and the battalion's part in it is told in another chapter. The same afternoon the Royal Host presented the now famous banner. Tuesday was spent in viewing the Mardi Gras processions and the great balls of the evening. On Wednesday the battalion had a dress parade. On Thursday morning the graves of the Confederate soldiers were saluted and on the same afternoon the Battalion had a most succesful reception on board the Robert E. Lee. On Friday morning the train was boarded and the homeward journey begun. It can readily be seen by this programme that the time of the men was fully occupied. The pass system for the men was abandoned after the first night and afterwards they went and came pretty much as they pleased except that they were on hand for drills and parades. A number of very amusing incidents are related of the first night. One has already been told.

It was about four o'clock in the morning-four hours after midnight-that the sentry at the gangway heard the sound of stealthy footsteps. He had been warned to look out for petty theives who might possibly smuggle themselves on board and despoil the sleeping "Yanks," so he remained very quietly in the shade of a post and watched intently the movements of the mysterious figure on the levee. The figure paused behind a cotton bale and

peered cautiously around the corner. The sentry saw him dimly outlined in the flickering light of the gangway lantern, but he did not see the sentry. This evidently assured him that the coast was clear, that the sentinels had been withdrawn for some reason, and he boldly started for the gangway. When just about to step on the plank, it occured to him that something was wrong. There was

an unnatural quiet about the deck, so he retreated to the cotton bale again. The sentry stole through the shadows and brought the nodding corporal of the guard to his feet with a fierce hiss-ss-s! The man behind the cotton bale heard the click of the corporal's rifle and sank down behind the bale and out of sight. A few words of explanation to the corporal aroused that officer's interest, and he in turn aroused the Sergeant of the guard. Two or three men were placed about the deck at favorite points, and the Sergeant took a seat on a camp chest mentally resolving to capture the bold marauder or perish at his post. Silence had reigned for about twenty minutes when the figure crept quietly out from behind the cotten bale and started towards the bow of the boat evidently intending to climb up the sides. He slipped as he made the attempt and rolled down on the levee. Then he got up and evidently intending to end the matter, made straight for the gangway and on tip toe passed to the main deck. With a half suppressed chuckle at his success he was just about ascending the stairway when he was seized by four men who came out of the gloom, and in a moment was on his