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Chap. XX.] Walterloo Anecdotes. 285 |
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French excesses after Jena in 1806, and with the French the memories of the humiliation inflicted on them by the united forces of indignant Europe in 1815.
Not a bad illustration of these facts is furnished by the following incident which was described to us by a niece of Sergeant-Major Cotton, then residing at the famous Museum. One day in July 1870 (singularly enough not many hours before the declaration of war by France against Germany), a Frenchman made the following insulting entry in the Visitors' Book at the " Mound of the Lion," near Waterloo :•—
The day after, a Prussian came to the place, and seeing what the Frenchman had written, he replied as follows :—
Doubtless the Frenchman believed what he was predicting, but evidently the Prussian gauged more accurately the probabilities of the contest then looming in the near distance. |
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Unfamiliar Female Christian Names.
During the years that I have kept account, I have known ladies with the undermentioned unfamiliar Christian Names. I suppress the surnames :— |
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