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 "We pitched our camp in the court-yard, not far from the entrance, the peasants placed themselves round the brandy cask, lighted their pipes, and expected with pleasure the appearance of the airy gentlemen."

"Another advantage we reaped from that honest company was, that we had no need to keep sleep at a distance by reading, for the merriment of our little army rose soon to the highest pitch, and these jovial fellows being heated by the contents of our little cask, challenged his satanic majesty and all his infernal hosts amid peals of roaring laughter."

"It was now past eleven o'clock, and the noise began to abate, some of our gentlemen were noding, and some snoring, we were therefore obliged to beg those who had not yet yielded to the powerful charms of sleep, to give us a song, which they instantly did in so vociferous a manner, that our hearing organs were most painfully affected—the sleepers started up when they heard that terrible noise,