The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-02-10
Myn!sg Star snd Catholic EezSengor.
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ETW oEIEANa sUNRAY, rFBEU AEY 40 iEa

now and then. Pat the bottle aside by ltseI
it in excellent Aud for the rest, the ROOF
which you have given me il too handsome;
don't like such gewgaws; t4Is iino fuThitur
and these soft beds are good for womer
What want is email ROOM Ike That AT n
side, two good chairs, pine liable, "a PlAl
bed-with IA mattrass, paillBs1e, and coverings
and five or six nails in thowaA for hanging III.
things You just give me that"
"Since you wish IL, Mr. Sei geBnt'
Yes, l wish it the handsome room Will b'
for state occasions"
"You will breakfast with us y asked my
wife, we'll pleased
All breakfast and dine at the cantine," re
plied the SCI geaut. ~ do very well there, and
/ don't want to have good people go to any
expense for me. When people respect an old
soldier ns ho ought to be respected, when
they treat him kindly, when they are like
you-Trubert, too, is what he ought to boz.
"But, Mr. Sergeant" said Sorle.
"Call me Sergeant" said ne, 81 know yon
now. You are not like all the rabble of the
city; rsscals who have been growing rich
while we have been of lighting; wretches
who do nothing bnt heap up money and
grow big at the expense of the army, who
live on u.s. who are indebted to Us for every
thing, and who send us To sleep IN ncsts of
vermin. Ah q Thousand mI!lioa tLnnders"
His face resumed It's bad look his mus
taches shook with his anger, and thought
To myself, What goou idea it was to treat
him well. Sorle's ideas are always good"
snow, Madame Moses" he continued, "the
We showed him the small room that he
asked for, and be went at once 70 fetch his
knapsack from the other, sayiBg as he went
snow j am among honest Tooplei We
p, 'hall have difficulty in getting along to-
Gether,- -Ynn do not 1Tonhle me, do not
trouble you come iii and go out by day
-r night it is Sergeant Trubort, that is
enough. And now aud then, in the morning,
we will tako our little glass; it is agreed, is
it not, Father Mosesf"
'Yes, sergeant"
"And here i'd the key Of the house." said
.'Very we'll everything is arranged now
! am going to take nap; goodbye, my
friends"
AZ hope you will sle sp well, sergeant We
went ont at once and hoard him lie down.
" You see, Moses, You see,,' whispered my
wife, in the alley, "it has all come right"
your plan was good one; and now, if the
spirits Of wine only come, We shall be happy"
From that time the sergeant lived with us
without troubling anybody. Every morning, |
6ef,re he went to his duties, he came and
mo while he took his glass. Heliked to laugh |
with Safel and we called him "our sergeant"
rs II he were one of the family. lie seemed !
to like to be with us; he was n careful man |
he cleaned his own buff skins, and would not |
let any one touch his arms.
One morning, when ! was going to answer |
to the call he met me in the alley, and, see
ing a little rust my musket he began to |
swear like the devil.
All Father Moses, if had You in my com
pany. it would go hard with you!
Yes" thought / ; but thank God Pm not"
Sorle, leaning over The balustrades above,
laughed heartily.
From that time the sergeant regularly in
epected my equipmentsi must clean my gun
over and over, take 1t 10 pieces, clean the bar
rel and furbish the bayonot, as if l expected to
go and fight. And even when he knew how
Monborne treated me, he wanted also to teach |
me the EXERCISES All my remonstrances were
IN he TFnv ami
Father Moses, l can't stand it, that nm |
honest man like yon should know less than the
rabble Go along"
And then wonld mp to the loft 1t WAS
very cold, but the sergeant was 30 provoked at
my want of briskness in performing the move.
ments, that be always put me III IA great per.
spiration before We finished.
"Attention to the word of command and no
laZiness," he would exclaim.
used to hear Surlo, Satel, and the servant
Laughing iu the stairway, they peeped
through the latls. and did not dare tu urn
my head. In fine, il WAS entirely owing to
tins good Trubert that l learned to charge
we'll, and became one Cf the best vnulters in
tho company.
"Ah Fritz, it would all have been yerv
we'll II the spirits of wine had come but in.
stead OF my dozen pipes, there came half a
company of marine artillery, and four hundred
recruits for the sixth light infantry.
About this time the governor ordered that
space Of six hundred metres wide should be
cleared all round the city.
2Ou enoulu nave seen the havoc that WAS
made In the place the fences, palisades and
trees hewn down, the hou ses demolished, from
which everybody carried away beam or
eometimbers. You shonld have looked down
from the rampArts and seen the little gardens,
che line of Poplars the old trees in the orchard
felled to the ground and dragged away BY
swArms of workmea. You should have seen
All this to know what war is
Father Frise, the two Camus boys. the
Sades, the BossertS, and all the families Of the
gardeners and small farmers who lived at !
suffered the most. Loan almost
hear old Fritz exclaim
-" Ah my poor apple trees Ah nv Door
pear trees planted you myself forty wears
ago; How beautiful you were, always covered
with fine fruit ., misery misery u
Aud the soldiers still chopped away. To-
ward the end, old Fritz went away, Gis can
drawn over lis eyes, and weeping bitterly.
The rumor spread also that they were going
20 burn the Maisons Rouges at the foot Of the
Mittlehronn hill, the tile kiln at Pernette. and
the little inns of r.4rbre Jert and Pnnier
f!enrt, but it seemed that the governor found
1t was not necessary as these houses were ont {
OF range; or rather, that they would reserve ,
that TIL later, and that the allies were coming
sooner than they were expected. !
VI what happened before the blockade.
remembered too that on the twenty second of