Cadoudal listened to them, gathered together a number of his companions, and offered his services to Stofflet.

But Stofflet insisted on seeing him at work before he accepted him.

Georges asked nothing better.

Such occasions were not long to seek in the Vendean army.

On the next day there was a battle; Georges went into it with such determination and made so desperate a rush that M.de Maulevrier's former huntsman, on seeing him charge the Blues, could not refrain from saying aloud to Bonchamp, who was near him: "If a cannon ball doesn't take off that _Big Round Head_, it will roll far, I warrant you." The name clung to Cadoudal--a name by which, five centuries earlier, the lords of Malestroit, Penhoel, Beaumanoir and Rochefort designated the great Constable, whose ransom was spun by the women of Brittany.
"There's the Big Round Head," said they; "now we'll exchange some good sword-play with the English." Unfortunately, at this time it was not Breton sword-thrusts against English, but Frenchmen against Frenchmen.
Georges remained in Vendee until after the defeat of Savenay.