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It was suggested by Ivan, that, with such a demand for the flesh, the izzard should fetch a better price. Ten francs was nothing? "Ah!" replied the hunter with a sigh, "that is easily explained, monsieur! The hotel-keepers are too cunning, both for us and their guests. If we were to charge more, they would not take it off our hands."
General Izzard had, meanwhile, arrived from Sackett's Harbour with 4,000 troops from Plattsburgh, but General Brown, having heard that Sir James Yeo had completed a new ship, the St.
Birds of many European species frequent the lower forests of the Pyrenees, or fill the sheltered valleys with their vocal music; while, soaring above the mountain summits, may be seen the great vulture-eagle, or "lammergeyer," watching with greedy eye the feeble lambkin, or the new-born kid of the ibex and izzard.
Fortune favors the brave, when judicious. Hampton, having detached Colonel Clarke to devastate Missisquoi Bay, prepared to advance. He sent General Izzard, with the light troops and a regiment of the line, to force a militia picquet at the junction of the rivers Outaite and Chateauguay, and there the main body of the Americans arrived on the 22nd.
A very singular story which forms one of the sensational social topics of the day is the best authenticated of the many stories of the supernatural that have been lately told. Only a short time ago a young and well-known artist, Mr. A., was invited to pay a visit to his distinguished friend, Mr. Izzard.
What I want is a boy, a bright, wide-awake boy that knows enough about figguring to keep my accounts, and see that no one 'does' me, a boy that I can send round in the wagon to buy and sell 'cording to my orders, a boy that will be smart enough to pick up the whole business from a to izzard, and work up as I worked up till I kin make him partner.
An' he did have it, too; an' they all come, every mother's son of 'em from a to izzard even to them that has expressed secret dissatisfactions; which they was all welcome, though it does seem to me thet, ef I 'd been in their places, I'd 'a' hardly had the face to come an' talk, too.
He told them of all the curious habits of the izzard; and among others that of its using its hooked horns to let itself down from the cliffs a fancy which is equally in vogue among the chamois hunters of the Alps, but which Alexis did not believe, although he did not say so not wishing to throw a doubt on the veracity of their guide.
Well, we sat down in the cursed cabin, much against my wishes, but he would rest nowhere else mark that so while we were helpin' ourselves to the ham and brandy, I up and tould him the history of Bet Harramount from a to izzard.
He then moved forward, towards the United States frontier, with about 11,000 men to oppose 1,500 American regulars and as many militia, under General Macomb, whose force had been weakened by 4,000 men, sent off under General Izzard, from Sackett's Harbour, to re-inforce the troops at Fort Erie.
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