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Updated: May 28, 2025
It was worth trying, and the boys of that day and time were accustomed to give and take hard knocks. So Uncle Joey Fesch and big Tony Ilari, the bearers of the challenge, set off for the hill pastures; and while they were gone Napoleon directed the preparations of his forces. The heralds returned with an answer of defiance from the hill boys. "So! they boast, do they?" little Napoleon said.
Andrew Pozzo cried. "How, then, can you send a challenge?" "How but by word of mouth?" replied Napoleon. "See, here are Uncle Joey Fesch and big Ilari; they shall go with their sticks, and stand before those shepherd boys, and shall cry aloud" "Shall we, then?" broke in big Ilari. "I will do no crying." Napoleon said nothing.
But you may be sure big Tony Ilari and the other boys paid court to the little Bonaparte's ability; while as for Uncle Joey Fesch, he was prouder than ever of his nine-year-old nephew and commander. Meantime things were going from bad to worse in the Bonaparte home.
Nurse Camilla, as he called her, or sometimes "foster-mamma Camilla," was now the widow Ilari; but since her husband had been killed in one of those terrible family quarrels known as a Corsican vendetta, she had lived in a little house on one of the narrow streets of Ajaccio, not far from the Bonapartes.
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