Before we can get excited over the battle in which we are engaged we've begun the next one.

It is also a matter of personal pride to me that one of the best bodies of troops in the service of General Jackson is of French descent like myself." "The Acadians, colonel," said Harry.

"Grand troops they are." "It is the French fighting blood," said Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St.
Hilaire, with a little trace of the grandiloquent in his tone.

"Slurs have been cast at the race from which I sprang since the rout and flight at Waterloo, but how undeserved they are! The French have burned more gunpowder and have won more great battles without the help of allies than any other nation in Europe.

And their descendants in North America have shown their valor all the way from Quebec to New Orleans, although we are widely separated now, and scarcely know the speech of one another." "It's true, Hector," said Colonel Leonidas Talbot.