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Jasmin: Barber

CHAPTER I
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Age and infirmity kept him indoors.

He began to feel himself a burden on the impoverished family.

He made up his mind to rid them of the incumbrance, and desired the parents to put him into the family arm-chair and have him carried to the hospital.

Jasmin has touchingly told the incident of his removal.
"It happened on a Monday," he says in his Souvenirs: "I was then ten years old.

I was playing in the square with my companions, girded about with a wooden sword, and I was king; but suddenly a dreadful spectacle disturbed my royalty.


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