found guilty and sentenced to penal servitude for life. It was a long
time before Sergeant Roe recovered from the effects of the wound.

At Easter we presented to the public Dickens' Christmas Carol, Scrooge
and Marley, which had been postponed. Sergeant Smith had written a
musical libretto, of which I remember the following:

"When we were for this preparing
Late last fall,
Neither time nor trouble sparing
To please you all,
Zounds! these niggers raised the shindies,
Cracking crowns and court-house windies,
Sent us sharp to the West Indies,
Late last fall."

It was a decided success, and several hundreds of dollars were handed
over to the charitable institutions of the city.

The memorable year, 1866, dawned over Canada, and much trouble and
excitement was predicted. The Fenians were preparing for an invasion of
St. Andrews, N.B., and the general, for the better protection of the
citizens, had issued orders that a battery of artillery, a company of
engineers, with the 2nd Battalion, 17th Regiment, be held in readiness
to proceed to St. Andrews as soon as transport was available. We did
not expect anything but a fizzle. However, it was a change, and, I may
say, a picnic.

CHAPTER VII.

We embarked on H.M.S. _Duncan_. On reaching St. Andrews we disembarked
and marched to a large warehouse, where we made our home for a few weeks.
The general and staff accompanied the expedition. I was a brigade clerk,
and Sergeant Woffenden clerk in the quartermaster-general's department.

The troops' duties were light. The Charlotte militia were embodied and
did outpost duty. I was kept busy making out orders and instructions
for the establishing of new posts to watch the movements of the
Fenians, who assembled in large numbers on the opposite side of the
River St. Croix. There was a strong military police force established
to prevent strangers coming to town. Rooms in the Hackett Hotel were
leased for headquarters officers, and so things sailed along quietly
until Sergeant Cashin, in charge of the police force, caught a Fenian
in the act of enticing one of our men to desert and join his army. The
general could not deal with this case, it being a civil one. He was
brought before the police magistrate, who fined him $100 and costs. But
with all the watching we lost several men.

The last excitement and the expectancy of fighting arrived. The 17th
had posted a line of sentries alo