"Well, and what about 'dear old Bauer,' as you call him ?" cried Napoleon; "finish, sir; finish, I say." "I will tell you what Father Bauer says of you, Napoleon," said des Mazes laughingly, as he laid his arm familiarly about Napoleon's neck; "he says he does not think much of you, because you make no progress in your German; and as old Bauer thinks the world moves only for Germans, he has nothing good to say of one who makes no mark in his dear language.

'Ach!' says old Bauer, 'your Napoleon Bonaparte will never be anything but a fool.

He knows no German.'" The boys laughed loudly at des Mazes's mimicry of the German teacher's manner and speech.

But Napoleon smiled with the air of one who felt himself superior to the teacher of German.
"Now, I should say," said Philip Mabille, "that here is the very reason why Napoleon should not refuse to join us.

It will be--what are the words?
--'heaping coals of fire' on old Bauer's head." "That might be so," Napoleon agreed, in a better humor.