The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-10-03

most of, and wasn't it their backs
that he knew best" At last a solu-
ton OF the mystery was hit upon.
He was purshuing 'em. you see, and
iust TO make the villins think that, on
the contrary, he was retrating. he
buttoned his coat behind him.
o. the anecdotes and jokes told of
the brigade during their extended
foreign service-proofs Of humor and
light heartedness which even exile
could not subdue-the number is
indeed legion. Gallic vanity forced
them often into the attitude Of cen
sors, and several Of their repartees
are excellent. and as full of sense as
they are of pleasantly. Among the
mass OF these is one that has often
been referred to other sources-when a
Frenchman claiming for his country
the invention Of all the elegancies
named among other things the ruffie,
and Pat answered: I'VE improved on
tive put to it shirt
La the same spirit, but less known,
was his retort upon a shopkeeper in
some petty town where he was quar-
tered. The place had a rather pre-
tentious gate, and the grocer dilating
on its grandeuer, asked what the Irish
would say, if they possessed it. Faith
they'd say" was his reply, ."well kape
the big gate shut, or the dirty little
town will be after running ont of it."
This sarcasm, however, was deeper
and more essentially Hibernian when,
on his going somewhere to dine, after
hearing great praises of French cook
cry, he saw pot of soup brought in
with bit of meat floating on the top
Of it, upon which be pulled off his
coat, and being asked why he did so,
said: Sure | am going to have a
swim for that little bit of mate there"
Among the adventures recorded of
the brigade, one Of the most amusing
was an occurrence in the time of the
Regent Orisans, in honor of whose
birthday great masquerade was Civ
en- IN Paris. 1t WAS a high class affair;
tickets were a double louis dor each:
all the rank and beauty Of Paris were
assembled around the Roget, and a
costly and luxurious supper crowned
the attractions of the night. While
the entertainment was proceeding one
Of the Princes suite approached and
whispered to him, ''it is worth your
Royal Highness' while to to step into
the supper rooms; there is a yellow
Domino there, who is the most extra
ordinary cormOrant witnessed, he is
a prodigy, your Bighness; he never
stops eating and drinking, and the at
tendants say, moreover, that he has
not done so for some hours" His
Royal Highness went accordingly and
sure enough there was the yellow
Domino, laying about him as describ-
ed and swallowing everything as raw
enOus as if he had only just began
Raised pies fell before him like garden
paling before field piece pheassnts
and quails seemed to fly down his
throat in a little covey-the wine lie
drank threatened scarcity, whatever
might be the next vintage.
After watching him for some time,
the Duke acknowledged he was a won
der, and laughingly he left the room;
but shortly afterward, on passing
through another, he saw the yellow
Domino again, and as actively at
work 8s ever. devastinging the dishes
everywhere and emptying the cham
pagne bottles as rapidly az they were
brought to him. Perfectly amazed
the Duke at last could not restrain
his curiousty. "Who." he asked, ''is
that insatiate ogre that threatens such
annihilation to al the labors Of our
cooks2" Accordingly ole of the suite
was dispatched to him. "1fis Royal
Highnes5 the Duke of Orleans. desires
the yellow Domino to unmask." But
the Domino begged to be excused,
pleading the privilege of a masquerer
There Is higher law" replied the
officer; "the royal order must be obey
ed" well, then" answered the in
cognito, ''if it must be so, it must"
aud unmasking, exhibited the ruddy
visage Of an Irish trooper.
"Why in the name Of Polyphemus,"
exclaimed the Regent as he advanced
to him, who and what are you? ]
have seen you eat and drink enough
fol a dozen men at least. and yet you
seem as empty us ever"
"Well. them" said the trooper.
''since the saycret must come out.
plase your Royal Highness, am one
OF Ciare's Horse-that's the guard of
honor to highland when our men
were ordered out we dubbed our
money to buy ticket and agreed to
to take our turn ct the supper table,
turn and turn about"
"Whatw exclaimed she Duke, ''the
whole troop coming to superb
''Oh, it's asy, phase yo7r Highness:
sure one domino would do for all Of
us, if each tux it in turn. I'm only
the eighteenth man, and there's twelve
more of us to come"
The loud laughter of the iovial
Duke, probably the heartiest he had
had for long time, was the response
to this explanation, followed by louis
d or to the dragoon, and a promise
to keep his ''saycret,' till the entire
troop had supped.
The career of the Irish Brigade
closed With the approach of the
French Revolution. and fortunately
for them, no doubt, since had they re-
mqined in Fr nee, there g little ques-
tlon they would have maintained
thei" loyalty, and been massacred like
the Swiss. But before they We're brok-
en- up. they were addressed by the
king in person, who. thanking them
with much emotion for their devotion
to the house of Bourbon. which they
had displayed throughout a century.
presented them with a banner in
which the shamrock and fenr de lis
were interviewer, with a Mandatory
motto. There was some ground for
the kings emotion-if the historians
of the Brigade are all to he relied on
that in the course of the century
upward of 10000 Ifishmen had died
+ in the ranks of France What an army
lost to England-what a comment on
f tha paDa r0la'