Collingwood At Trafalgar

On the 21st of October the French and Spahisli fleets were caught at Trafalgar. Every pnglishman knows how Collingwood led the way into the fight far ahead of any other ship, made flrst for the Santa Anna, crushed her with a broadside whica killed 350 men and was promptly engaged with no fewer than flve of the enemy. And in the midst of the contest the gailant old Admiral in the his best uniform, kneebreeches, silk stockings, and buckled shoes, paced watchfully to and fro munching an apple. "you had better put on silk stockings, as I have," he said to his first lieutenant on the morning of the fight; "for if one should get shot in the leg they would be so much more manageable for the surgeon." As the struggle went on he went down among the men, sighted several of the guns himself, and encouraged all hands. At one moment, In the hottest of the fire, he gave way to his ruling passion of economy of the King's stores, soleninly rolled up, with the assistance of hls first lleutenant, a topgaüant studdlng-sail which was hanging loose over the hammocks, and stowed it carefully away, observing that it would be wanted some other day." -