340 THE LION KILLER. 



the scamps on foot, and then commenced a very amusing fight. 

 Dodging around bushes and between rocks, sometimes on 

 foot and sometimes on horseback, we followed our foes, and 

 they, when they got too hard pressed, would scramble up a tree. 



The fight lasted until night, the French were everywhere 

 victorious, and the soothsayer had to leave the country, to 

 avoid the merited anger of his dupes. 



At the end of forty days the troops returned to garrison, 

 and the third regiment of spahis to Guelma. 



