Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-12-11
The COlOners Sentence; An Algerian
Story.
BY DAVID KER.


lieutenant, in the til of the line, as he
sat slipping his coffee in front of the Hotel /
lie Ia Regence ut Algiers, " but by far the
cleverest man ever met was our colonel,
Henri de Malet. People said he ought to
have been an dr0cat but that was giving
him but half his due, for I'll be bound he
could have outlankcd any lawyer that
ever wore gown. In his latter days he
always went by the name of Solomon the
Second and if you care to know how he |
came by it I'll tell you.
Before he came to us De Malct was
military commandant at Oran, and it was
there that he did one of his best strokes
outgeneraling Il camel driver from Tan
gier, one of those thorough h-paced Moorish
rascas of whom the saying goes: Two
Maltese to jew, and three Jews to n
Moor" Now this Tangerine, when pulled
up for some offence or other, swore that
he wasn't Muley, the camel driyer at all,
but quite another man; and as his friends
all swore the same, and had managed to
alter his appearance bit before he was
arrested, he seemed sure of getting off.
But our colonel wasn't TO be done in that
way. He pretended to dismiss the case,
and allowed the fellow TO get right out
into the street us if all was over; and then
lic suuuen'I snou'Iu ''..'' NM us
The old rogue, hearing his own name,
turned and came back before he could
recolect himself, and so he was caught in
spite of all his cunning.
The fame of this exploit went abroad
like widtire, and it got to be II saying
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ooulu 1oii "no ii''o aonJ ~, ,at - n.s
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us, anu ~ hao oc'n iIIo''i0u W iho "
Brahma himself how his guilt us to be
made clear. Let every man of you come
forward in his turn and give me his piece
of bamboo; and the thiei, let him do
what he may, Will have the longest piece
Now you know what su1perstltious
hounds those Aslatic fellows always are; ;
and when they heard this announcement
they all looked at each other like children
going 10 be whipped. The colonel took
the bamboos one alter another, as solemn
ly as if he were on II court martial, but
when about dozen men had gone past,
he suddenly sprang forward and seized
one t them by the throat, shouting at the
full pitch of his voice, You are the man"
Down went the fellow on his knees
= and yelled Tor mercy, coniesslng that he
! was the man, sure enough. AS for the
rest. they looked rs frightened as II all the
gods in the caverns OF Elephanta had
come lying down among then III once
and from that day forth they salaamed to
the very ground at the mere sight OF the
colonel halt mile oil.
60 How on earth did you manage that
colonel? asked the senior MAJOR, great
fat fellow, as stupid as carp
l *Why this unfortunate fish should be so dietn
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= let left alone, flew at him with "a drawn
yataphan but the colonel lust dropped OF
; his horses neck and let the blow paSs oveI
him. and then rave point and ran the frl
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II eSoa hanrI %H' %in, s;na 10 thnse last t,vo yersc
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A. A. '"''' ''''S
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y, And with him gentle be;
~, Hen miss his master for While
~ Adeul remember melt
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IL tnS exaetIy. ptIIS'' o' '"' '7"' ''7 '''''' ~ ''
so :. wan al u.s s,v;po Euoena ho
in n,, ',nt nt', ovnr '' tho worE and don't kno
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