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troops of children parade the streets with 

 green boughs ornamented with cherries, to 

 commemorate a victory obtained in the fol- 

 lowing manner : in 1432 the Hussites threat- 

 ened the city of Hamburg with an immediate 

 destruction, when one of the citizens named 

 Wolf proposed that all the children in the 

 city, from seven to fourteen years of age, 

 should be clad in mourning, and sent as sup- 

 plicants to the enemy. Procopius Nasus, 

 chief of the Hussites, was so touched with this 

 spectacle, that he received the young suppli- 

 cants, regaled them with cherries and other 

 fruits, and promised them to spare the city. 

 The children returned crowned with leaves, 

 holding cherries, and crying " Victory!" 



