fTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAtOR.") SIR,—The story related
by the Rev. W. Elliot Bradley and repeated by the Bishop of Durham in your issue of October 19th appears to be a variant of the tales of the " Angels of Mons," current at an earlier period of the war, and which might be sum- marized in a parody of a well-known Latin proverb, " Parturiet Mons, nascitur ridiculus Angelus! " It atiikes me as curious that " even the horses of the cavalry jibbed and reared " at the sight of the approach of supposed British reinforcements. This be- haviour would seem to indicate an unusual degree of equine intelligence; but it was due to the well-known mutual sympathy between horse and rider. But it seems to me unnecessary to seek for a supernatural cause of an effect that could be accounted for by a natural one; " the men of the thin British line were preparing to sell their lives dear," and the aspect of their firm and undaunted attitude may well have given the asselants pause; moreover, it is possible that the Germans were not aware of the disparity of
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