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Show Komanllc Incident of the War. A romantic incident of the warfare in Alsace took place in a small hamlet not far from Wasselonne. A poor old woman lived there with her two granddaughters, grand-daughters, aged eighteen and twenty, and her grandson of fifteen. Two Ba-dese Ba-dese dragoons alighted at the hnuc. called for meat and drink, and ordered i to he prepared for therij. The women were forced to obey. When the soldiers had gorged iIil-uj.-a-Ivcs with iood and wine they commerj:-ed plajing with one of ine girls: the youni: peasant .-ecing the danger to which her sister was exposed, went up into the gar.et, under the pretext of fetching tome sheet, 'or.k n gun which had belonged to her father, loaded and i-ock-d it. and then waited behind a door : presently ono of the dragoons rose and advanced toward a sideboard to take ome wine, when she fired, killing him on the spot : the other, terrified, and believing in an attack, ru-hed to the door, .md jump-incr jump-incr on his norse j.il loped oil. |