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 by cats; and passed an ironical compliment on the speed her exerted in his flight which considering his age and infirmities I said was surprising. He was to the quick by this sarcasm and, with an air of threatening disdain, bid me  myself better, and remember the  I had already received from. To this inuendo I made no reply by a kick on the breach, which  him in an instant. He started up with wonderful agility, and drawing his, attacked me with great fury.— sustained his onset with little damage, only received a small scratch on  right shoulder. assaulted him in my, closed with him, and wrested his out of his hand. Having this the victory. I desired him to beg life; to which he made no answer,  shrugged up his shoulders. However, mortify his vanity, I thrust his sword  to the hilt in something that lay  on the plain, and joined the rest of the  with an air of indifferece.

The campaign being ended. the English back to the Netherlands. Part our army was detached to French, and our regiment ordered to winter  Champaigne. The grenadier company, to