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The bluejacket gun crew, being in uniform, caught their eyes first. They cheered them, the brav' Américains. And then the wounded came. Oh, the pity! Three or four of the wounded, who had all that day been cavorting around deck, saw the dramatic values and assumed most languid poses. Oh, the great pity! Whereat two more almost fainted.

It was almost a miracle that it did not sever the jugular vein. For some time "Le brav' Général's" life was despaired of; but when he was pronounced out of danger, Paris amused itself with the thought that the most prominent soldier in the French army had nearly met his death at the hands of an elderly lawyer.

Some of 'em was disposed ter stick out for de beer fust, an' said dey could do deir bes' shoutin' w'en dey was loaded. But my princerple is work fust, den go ter de cashier. So I made 'em a speech. "I sez: 'Feller-citerzens: Dis is de lan' er de free an' de home er de brav, an' den I give a motion wot means 'stamp de feet. Dey all stamped like dey was clog-dancers.

Naturally the professor's mind reverted to the occasion when Nigel had watched in the branches of a tree for another tiger. The conditions were different, and so, he thought, was the man! "Mine yoong frond," he said mentally, "is brav', oondoubtedly, but his nerves have not been braced by experience like mine. It is vell, for zere is more dancher here zan in a tree. It matters not.

Lajeunais," said Henry, "and I am certain that my people are no enemies of the French in Canada. Perhaps we shall meet in Detroit." "Eet ees likely, mon brav," said Lajeunais, "I come into the town in four days an' I inquire for ze great boy named Ware." Timmendiquas gave the signal and in another hour they were in Detroit. Henry missed nothing as he went on with the warriors.

I Mercedes Morales, an' I like ver' much de brav' Americanos. I like de red hair, too, señor in Mexico it all de same color like dis," and she shook out her own curling ebon locks in sudden shower. "I tink de red hair vas more beautiful." Mr. Brown was not greatly accustomed to having his rather fiery top-knot thus openly referred to in tones of evident admiration.

And for when he added: 'The boy's fresh from Earlsfont; he went down to look at the brav old house of the Adisters, and was nobly welcomed and entertained, and made a vast impression, his wife sedately remarked to Patrick, 'You have seen my brother Edward. 'And brings a message of his love to you, my dear, the Captain bit his nail harder.

"Ha! ha-a!" laughed Sam through a mouthful of pie-crust. "Ho! ho!" cried the old woman, with a look of surprise, "yous bery brav boy, I dessay, but if dem roberts doos kum back, you soon laugh on wrong side ob de mout', for dey screw yous limbses off, an' ho! skrunch yous teeth hout, an' roast you 'live, so you better heat w'at yous can an' go hof fast as you couldn't."

She smiled happily up at him, softly stroking his hair, even while the lines of her face twitched from pain. "Sure I know, señor. You von brav', good man maybe now you all'ays tink I brav', good also. Dat be 'nough for Mercedes. Oh, dis be de bettar vay de great God knows; sure He knows. Now, señor, I be yours all'ays, forever. I so happy to be lofed by good man.

And for when he added: 'The boy's fresh from Earlsfont; he went down to look at the brav old house of the Adisters, and was nobly welcomed and entertained, and made a vast impression, his wife sedately remarked to Patrick, 'You have seen my brother Edward. 'And brings a message of his love to you, my dear, the Captain bit his nail harder.