It is the dream of every French soldier, if he is wounded, to be taken to this ambulance.

They seem to be under the impression that, even if their legs are shot off, the skill of the AEsculapii of the United States will make them grow again.

Be this as it may, a person might be worse off than stretched on a bed with a slight wound under the tents of the Far West.
The French have a notion that, go where you may, to the top of a pyramid or to the top of Mont Blanc, you are sure to meet an Englishman reading a newspaper; in my experience of the world, the American girl is far more inevitable than the Britisher; and, of course, under the Stars and Stripes which wave over the American tents she is to be found, tending the sick, and, when there is nothing more to be got for them, patiently reading to them or playing at cards with them.

I have a great weakness for the American girl, she always puts her heart in what she is about.
When she flirts she does it conscientiously, and when she nurses a most uninviting-looking Zouave, or Franc-tireur, she does it equally conscientiously; besides, as a rule, she is pretty, a gift of nature which I am very far from undervaluing.
_November 16th._ It is reported in "official circles" that a second pigeon has arrived with intelligence from the French Consul at Bale, that the Baden troops have been defeated, and that some of them have been obliged to seek refuge in Switzerland.

The evident object of Trochu now is to get up the courage of our warriors to the sticking point for the grand sortie which is put off from day to day.