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■VIIKX AHAXDOXr.n r.Y THE AKMV. 1 13 Korniloir laid open to the orders of Colonel do, c n a p. Todleben all the engines, stores, and materials to . be found in the arsenal and the dockyards. Wag- gons, carts, phaetons, and carriages of all kinds, belonging to private citizens, were employed in drawing up loads to the batteries. In terms which woxild seem at first sight to be meant for our own English sailors, eyewitnesses speak of the merry, the ceaseless energy with which {in M'ays strange to landsmen) the crews of the ships dragged up great guns to the front. Of the citizens, some i'ormed themselves into vol- unteer corps, undertaking to do duty as guards and patrols in relief of the soldiers. Others toiled at the woiks. The women, the children helped. ^Men just let loose from prison — they had been loosed, as I gather, on account of the desperate nature of the emergency — came and entreated that they might be suffered to take part in the common labour. The people toiled Tiieox- cccdiiicT cheerily, and indeed, as it seems, with a most alacrity „ , . . Ill 1 . . "'th wliiih loyful animation, each labourer working intent, the work , was carried as though he saw plainly the object which all "u. were seeking in common, and also understood, without doubting, what he himself had to do. There was no ceasing. The people worked by relays. From dawn to sunset, between five and six thousand men were bu.sy along the lines of defence. ]3y help of torches, other men, in less numbers, carried on the work through the niiiht. Before this, of course, the people of the place and the jrarrison had shared with their fellow-