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Rh giving full scope to her natural inclination, the young savage pursued the hares and rabbits that were started, took them, and returning at the same pace, delivered them to the Queen. That Princess discovered some intention of carrying the little savage along with her, in order to place her in a convent at Nancy; but was dissuaded from it by those who had the care of her education in the convent of Chalons, where she was then boarded, at the expenceexpense [sic] of the late Duke of Orleans. The Queen, however, promised to write in her favour to her daughter the Queen of France, to whom she sent at the same time a plant, consisting of several branches of artificial flowers, presented her by the little savage, who bad already learned an art which she has practised much since, that of imitating nature in works of that sort. By the death of the Queen of Poland, she suffered a loss which the goodness of the Queen her daughter was alone sufficient to compensate.—I return to the period immediately subsequent to her capture, and to the beginning of her education. But before entering upon that, I must relate the most certain accounts that have come to my knowledgę of her adventures before she made her appearance in the village of Songi.

, the name by which she is now called, remembers perfectly