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about him and went up to the soldier, who had, by this time, again commenced pacing to and fro.

“You are cold,” he said. ‘Is it not so? Here, take my blanket.”

“But, sir,” answered the soldier, although he eyed the blanket longingly, "I can't deprive you of your blanket.”

“It does not deprive,” returned the marquis, ‘for I have another.”

And, putting the blanket into the soldier's hands, he went buck into the tent, to lie shivering until morning.

“It may be, and is, wrong to tell lies,” he murmured as he lay down, “but it is worse to let a human being freeze to death almost before your very eyes.”

Now this little story may not be true, but I think it is very like the gallant young Frenchman who left home and country, wealth and friends, that he might do what he thought was right.

know a great deal about history, but I think my favorite episode in American history is the time that the Narragansett Indians sent the snake-skin filled with arrows to Plymouth, to say that they were going to make war against the people in Plymouth. The people in Plymouth filled the snake-skin with bullets, and sent it back to the Indians, as if to say: “Shoot your arrows at us, and we will kill you with our bullets.” And the Narragansetts were so afraid that they sent the snake-skin back again, and there was no war.

I don’t know why this is my favorite episode in American history; perhaps it is that it shows the cowardliness of the Indians,