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et sans reproche/' had been rapidly sinking- since the affair 

 of the flying" savag'e^ and now felt convinced that the threat- 

 ened attack was at hand. Enveloped in a g"reat coat; with 

 red worsted nig*ht-cap on his raven pate, and pouring* out a 

 flood of smoke from a broken clay pipe which garnished 

 one corner of his mouth, he sat on the box of the bao-o-noe- 

 wag-g'on looking- the very picture of despair— and as he 

 thoug-ht of his fat wife and helpless family, Avith the impro- 

 bability of his ever seeing* them again, his feeling-s quite 

 overpowered him and he wept aloud. Never was the heart 

 of a hen partridge concealed beneath so bushy and so black 

 a beard. We incontinently dubbed him Cceur de Lion, and 

 he bore the surname ever afterwards. 



