"Learn to obey! Drag him to the rear, Lauriston." The fort was carried.

But "General Thaw" was too strong for the young soldiers; and that night, a rain setting in, finished the destruction of the now historic snow-fort of Brienne School.
Bouquet, smarting under what he considered the disgrace that had been put upon him before his playmates, accosted Napoleon that night in the hall.

"Bah, then, smarty Straw-nose!" he cried; "you are a beast.

How dare you lay hands on me, a Frenchman ?" "Because you would not obey orders," Napoleon replied.

"Was not I in command ?" "You!" sneered Bouquet; "and who are you to command?
A runaway Corsican, a brigand, and the son of a brigand, like all Corsicans." "My father is not a brigand," returned Napoleon.