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Balancez quatre en ligne, four dancers set in a line, joining hands, as in La Poule. Balancez en moulinet, gentlemen and their partners give each other right hands across, and balancez in the form of a cross. Balancez et tour des mains, all set to partners, and turn to places. Ballotez, do the same step four times without changing your place. Chaine Anglaise, opposite couples right and left.
The sailors of the "Belle Poule" protested that the catafalque was too frail, and the height too great. They dared not, they said, attempt to get the lead-lined coffin up to the place assigned for it, still less try to get it down again. It was consequently deposited, for fear of accident, on a low platform between the wheels.
During the embarkation, which the Prince directed himself, the bands played funeral airs, and all the boats were stationed round with their oars shipped. The moment the sarcophagus touched the cutter, a magnificent royal flag, which the ladies of James Town had embroidered for the occasion, was unfurled, and the 'Belle Poule' immediately squared her masts and unfurled her colors.
Helena," says that document, "the expedition fell in with a ship coming from Europe, and was thus made acquainted with the warlike rumors then afloat, by which a collision with the English marine was rendered possible. The Prince de Joinville immediately assembled the officers of the 'Belle Poule, to deliberate on an event so unexpected and important.
I have the skin of one killed in the Braye Pond in November, 1876, which might have been one of those bred there that year. Professor Ansted includes the Coot in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey. There is no specimen in the Museum. LITTLE BUSTARD. Otis tetrax, Linnaeus. French, "Outarde canepetière," "Poule de Carthage."
Hostilities began at 9 o'clock A.M., by the Moors firing twenty-one guns before the French had taken up their position, but the fire was not returned until 2 P.M. The 'Gemappes, 100; 'Suffren, 99; 'Triton, 80; ships of the line. 'Belle Poule, 60, frigate; 'Asmodée' and 'Pluton, steamers, and some brigs, constituted the bombarding squadron.
We all returned to Sego. I went back to Sansanding and staid there, waiting for the arrival of the Poule I had sent to Yaour. Four months after he came back, having been eight months on his voyage, and having suffered greatly.
The famed Belle Poule straight ahead did lie, The Arethusa seemed to fly, Not a sheet or a tack or a brace did she slack, Though the Frenchman laughed and thought it stuff, But they knew not the handful of men how tough On board of the Arethusa! "On deck five hundred men did dance, The stoutest they could find in France; We with two hundred did advance, On board of the Arethusa!
"Let me hear those two lines." Gualtieri covered his head, and standing in the door he had opened, he said with a deep pathos and in a profoundly melancholy voice: "Deux coqs vivaient en paix; une poule survint, Et voila la guerreallumec" and nodding a last adieu, he disappeared. Gentz laughed. "Indeed, he is right," he exclaimed; "that is the end of wedded life.
'I find, he said, with a vivacity in strong contrast with his previous manner, 'that I can't come to-day, but I hope you'll give me another chance. Supposing you and your friends are at liberty for this evening, will you bring them to dine with me? I can trust the Poule d'Or; I know it of old. 'Good, said Ralston. 'If they are at liberty, we'll be there. What time shall we say? Seven?
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