The sun shone brilliantly as Colonel Wallace led the men of the North division into the enclosure.

Amidst subdued cheers he marched them across the field in fours, forming up in quarter column by the right, facing left.

For an hour and a quarter the procession filed through the gates, the men taking up their positions with perfect movement and not the faintest suggestion of confusion.

As the men from the West took up their position the crowd broke into a great cheer.

They mustered only two battalions, but they had come from Mr.Devlin's constituency! "As a body the men were magnificent.