The last paragraph of her letter is devoted to the insurrection in Herzegovina, and it is hardly worth while to say that all her sympathies are with the insurgents.

'If I were a man,' she writes, 'I would go and fight for them.' That is very well; she always took the part of thieves against the police.

I remember long ago--she was ten years old--I told her the story of an unfortunate traveller besieged in a forest by an army of wolves.

He made a barricade about himself, and around it he lighted great fires.

The wolves fell into the flames, where they roasted, one after the other.