Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-03-15

Manchot? You are not with your regi-
ment how is that Leave me; my
battles are all forght-bdt stay. Here,
take this cross and my purse; there's
not so much in it. wish fer her sake
there was more but the Emperor will
not forget her. When you reach France
-ah la belle France! VIpe U En-
pereur! Now go; join your company.
Adieu ge.'
go Not unless take you with me-
Come
" Come How can l como ? Fool
that you are, do you not see that can
not walk, or do you think l should be
lying here p
go Nevertheless, come With that /
lifted him on my shoulder.
60 What are you doing Put me down,
l tell you, put mo down.
"' Put you down What to lie and
die on the snow, or to be murdered by
those thieves Of Cossacks and then strip
ped Oh, no, captain shall not do
that. You need not ask me-
90 Impudent rascal that you are | do
not ask you l order you. Disobey me
at your peril
"' Excuse me, Captain you need not
trouble yourself to speak. See. you can
do nothing you are too weak to strug-
GLE
80 What ! am l not to be obeyed /?
| A n 7 if / cnryiUa fbis Jax, .ho1
fer for it. By the word of Captain Tetu
you shall
"' Survive! Why not? OF course
you shall. I'll carry you all safe. Sur.
vive ma Joi ! and l, Corporal Manchot,
hero =
80 Villain lay me down, I say
What you won't? Oh, you would not
dare to treat me so il l was strong but,
alas am weak, and you take base
advantage of me-
go Well, Captain, let me have my own
way, now when you are strong again,
l will obey you, as have always 6ons.'
"' Rascal that ycu are =
"'A All this while l was trudging on as
we'll as / could, and that was very badly.
1t was hard enough to walk whom l had
only myself to carry, but with the captain
on my shoulders It was little more diff
fcult. My company was now out of sight;
it was of no use trying to over.akc them
that was impossible. All around me
stretched an immense, treeless, snow
| oayarnH ,>1afp NntI;no. t. L.
upon its wild waste but the black patches
and the little mounds which showed
whore the dead and dying were. In tho
far distance, against the snow laden hor-
lion, could see few moving specks,
which | soon discovered were mum Der
Of Cossacks, who at a gallop were swift
ly drawing nearer me.
All then it IS all over with us,
captain, said but he made no answer
he was irsensible. Well said | to
myself, l am not going to die, nor let
him either, without good hard struggle
fer it; that would not become n soldier
of tho Empire. No; if they come near
me, it will cost some OF those vile Cos
sacks dear-they shall know what
Frenchman can do. l will stop that
abominable hurrah of one or two of them,
or my name is not Manchot.'
81 had not much time to think, for
they drew quickly nearer, with that wild,
wretched yell of theirs. Call them sol.
diers Bah nasty, dirty, savage looks
ing fellows; with their bony, ragged,
ugly little horses. Why, they were
only fit TO kill the wounded and the dy-
ing-to injure and plunder those who
could not help themselves-not to fight
against Frenchmen.
Well, but what was 1 10 dor laid
the Captain down, and covered him ever
with snow as well as / could. Then,
seeing a number Of corpses lying together
in heap, went and lay down among
them, pretending that ], too, was dea d.
"The better TO hide myself, | turned
over a body, and was horrfed to find IL
was that of an old comrads Of mine, who
had fought by my side on the glorious
field of Acknowledgment Subra. A
braver and better soldier there was not in
the whole Grand Army. AT any other
time should have been much grioved,
but now all my thoughts were taken up
with how was 10 escape the enemy. So
crept as well as l could under the
corpse OF the Sergeant. The Cossacks
we're on us. Never did think myself so
near death as then. They galloped right
over us, and in doing so the hoof of one
Of the horses came down upon me, and
smashed my left arm. All my children
you may be sure it was not easy for me
to keep from calling out-the agony was
so very great. To keep in the cry that
that seemed to force itself from my heart,
almost bit my lips through. Well,
having done what mischief they could
while on horseback, they passed on
those numbering, thieving villains.
~ then ventured to lsok up from my
hiding-place. All, as l thought at first,
were gone. was glad Of this, for what
can one man, with O broken arm, do
against Numbered with two arms and
on horseback ? AS / cautiously locked
around, still lying where had hid-for
was too old soldier to betray myself
until knew that the whole coast was
clear-I saw that one of the enemy still
remained behind-a big, ugly scoundrel,
who, dsmounted and leading his horse,
was at this timo bent on the plumber of
an officer. At this sight nay anger made
mo forget my pain. felt hurt that so
pitiful villain should have 1t in his