Conceive this people steadily as schoolboys; and conceive the elation in any school if the head boy should suddenly arise and drive the rector from the schoolhouse.

I have received one instance of the feeling instantly aroused.

There lay at the time in the consular hospital an old chief who was a pet of the colonel's.

News reached him of the glorious event; he was sick, he thought himself sinking, sent for the colonel, and gave him his gun.

"Don't let the Germans get it," said the old gentleman, and having received a promise, was at peace..