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he would cry, "no woollen cloth es und er your uniforms
at this tim e of yea r l-See, colonel, that every man in
th is regi ment has them by to-morrow." After a hardfought
battle, Napoleon and his sta ff would sometimes
spend th e wh ole night on th e field caring for
th e wounded.
9. No one was ever sterner with his soldiers at
breaches of discipline; yet th e soldiers knew that
Napoleon could sometimes overlook a fault. One
night, it is said, after a hard day's figh tin g, he found a
sentry asleep at his post. Th e punishment for such an
offence in every army is death . Yet ~ T apoleon, instead
of waking the soldier and putting him und er arres t,
shouldered his musket and moun ted guard till the
man awoke, to receive a full pardon from his emperor.
cor-po-ral
de-vo-tion
cam-paign'
ex-cep-tion-al
pa-tri-ot-ism
rep-ri-mand'
squad-ron
ral-lied
de-tach-ment
e-vent-u-al-ly
mur-mur-ing'
cow-ar-dice
dis-cip-line
al-Iiid-ing'
be-hav-Iour
il-lus-tra-tion
W ORn EXElt CISE :-
1. Give a list of words with th e suffix -ship, as friendship, and
their mean ings.
2. :lIake sentences showing th e various uses of the word s charge and
discharge.
3. Give a list of word s with th e suffix -isrn, as patriotism, and
th eir meanings.
For N OTES , see pa[Je £6J.
32. THE LITTLE CORPORAL.-II.
1. It has often been said that, in 1 Tapoleon's time,
every private in the French army carried a marshal's
Laton in his knapsack. TIllS means that 11 man's