About eight years before this one of the inhabitants of the canton had killed a neighbor, the father of two children....

On reaching the age of sixteen or seventeen years these children left the country in order to dog the steps of the murderer, who kept on the watch, not daring to go far from his village....

Finding him playing cards under a tree, they fired at and killed him, and besides this accidentally shot another man who was asleep a few paces off.

The relatives on both sides pronounced the act justifiable and according to rule." Ibid., I., 143: "On reaching Bastia from Ajaccio the two principal families of the place, the Peraldi and the Visuldi, fired at each other, in disputing over the honor of entertaining me."] [Footnote 1115: Bourrienne, "Memoires," I., 18, 19.] [Footnote 1116: De Segur, "Histoire et Memoires," I,, 74.] [Footnote 1117: Yung, I., 195.

(Letter of Bonaparte to Paoli, June 12, 1789); I., 250 (Letter of Bonaparte to Buttafuoco, January 23 1790).] [Footnote 1118: Yung, I., 107 (Letter of Napoleon to his father, Sept.
12, 1784); I., 163 (Letter of Napoleon to Abbe Raynal, July, 1786); I., 197 (Letter of Napoleon to Paoli, June 12, 1789).