The people then attacked the barracks, and regularly carried them by storm; took the cannon which was with the detachment, and made prisoners of every soldier that was not killed in the fray.

If the half of it be true, St.
Florent has made a fine beginning for us." "Glorious fellows!" said Adolphe.

"What would I not give to have been with them ?" "You will have plenty of opportunity, M.Denot," said the priest, who held Adolphe in great aversion.
"But, Charles, the carnage of the people must have been dreadful," said Henri; "they had nothing but their hands and nails to fight with, against the muskets and bayonets of the soldiers--against artillery even." "The Lord supplied them with weapons, my son," said the priest, solemnly.

"Cannot He, who has given them courage and good hearts to stand against the enemies of their country, also give them weapons to fight his battles ?" "They say, too, that by some miracle the cannon could not be got to fire on the town.

They say it was loaded and ready, but that the powder would not ignite when the torch was put to it," said de Lescure.
"They say," added Denot, "that the Colonel himself repeatedly tried to fire it, but could not; and that when he found that Providence, interfered for the people, he laid down his sword, and gave himself up." "The man who came to me from the town," continued de Lescure, "had a thousand wonderful stories.