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Americ.: Birds, pp. 343 and 359; Major W. Ross King, 'The Sportsman in Canada, 1866, p. 156; Mr. Haymond, in Prof. Cox's 'Geol. Survey of Indiana, p. 227; Audubon, 'American Ornitholog. Biograph. vol. i. p. 216. On the Kalij-pheasant, Jerdon, 'Birds of India, vol. iii. p. 533. On the Weavers, Livingstone's 'Expedition to the Zambesi, 1865, p. 425.
On the last day of August 1344, Joan rendered homage to Americ, Cardinal of Saint Martin and legate of Clement VI, who looked upon the kingdom of Naples as being a fief of the Church ever since the time when his predecessors had presented it to Charles of Anjou, and overthrown and excommunicated the house of Suabia.
He was beginning, thus early in the voyage of these would-be citizens, to prepare to use them in the politics of his over-crowded ward in New York City. "Come-a! We drink-a to Americ. We drink-a to New York. New York da mos' reech-a place." Kreutzer took the cup out of her hand and passed it back to him. "Bitte," he said, calmly. "I thank you. My daughter does not care for wine."
Frenchy, a little bewildered, laughed good-humoredly as the bantering throng plied him with absurdities. "Are you French?" Tom asked, as some new victim diverted the attention of the boys. "Ah, no! I am Americ'." "But you were born in France?" "Yess zey call it Zhermany, but it is France! I take ze coat from you. Still it is yours. Am I right? I am born in Alsace. Zat is France!"
Wiz my fist zhust boy's fist, but so sharp." "I don't blame you," said Tom. "So zen I must flee. Even to be rude to ze Zherman soldier zis is crime. So I come to Americ'. Zey are looking for me, but I go by night, I sleep in ze haystack zis I show. Zis is what you call talisman. Yess? "So I come to Epinal across ze border, through ze pass in ze mountains. I am free!
My pappa have to pay fine when hees cheeldren speak ze French. My little seester when she sing ze Marsellaise she must go t'ree days to ze Zherman zhail!" "You mean to prison?" Tom asked. "Just for singing the Marsellaise! Why, the hand-organs play that where I live!" "Ah, yess Americ'! In Alsace, even before ze war you sing ze Marsellaise, t'ree days you go to ze zhail.
On the last day of August 1344, Joan rendered homage to Americ, Cardinal of Saint Martin and legate of Clement VI, who looked upon the kingdom of Naples as being a fief of the Church ever since the time when his predecessors had presented it to Charles of Anjou, and overthrown and excommunicated the house of Suabia.
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