"'Do you want these fellows shot?' to which I naturally answered 'No.'
"Thereupon he took the Cossacks to a room, where he whipped them once more.
"In the evening he sent for me, and asked me what articles had been ruined and what stolen, whereupon he commanded the Cossacks to return all articles they had stolen. In order to prevent another theft, he gave me a Cossack, who watched the house until the next morning. What would have been the fate of the house had I been a Jewess I dare not imagine."
[THE CORPORAL'S TROPHY.]
Here is a little incident of the daily life of General Pau, a hero of the Franco-Prussian war, in which he lost an arm:
A dozen French infantrymen, mud-begrimed, were resting in a drizzling rain on the wayside under the dripping trees. The Corporal sits and tries in vain to light his pipe, at intervals singing lustily.
Suddenly the Corporal stands erect; his pipe is hidden behind his back, and he makes a hasty salute. Through the fog and rain one of the three great leaders of the French army has appeared.
"Why do you not wear your cap?" asks General Pau.
"I have lost my cap, General."