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Show vii'V. ol the rivnadu-rs at their camp at I li'iuli-iu'. Tin.- cutm:ary muiK-uwr-. I wt'iv jiorforiiio.!. and at vud i-n. ( tM-liii'.l iu command of the givna- ( dk :s NtLii-tt-il to m-treh at the head if the line K-b-re Nap-d.-on. lie put t!.- ,-jn:rs t hU hor-e, and the steed Wl:;;o1. The struck' was brief, fur the exa-pt-rati-d general drew his sword and gave the Iutm- Mich a stab in the no-lc that in another inmneut the h"t-M- lay stri-lelitd upon the sand. Tliat night the eoiuinander of the grenadifr dim-d with the emperor, and in the conn? of the meal Napoleon Ls tluit the way you treut your h.-r-e-,'.'" ire." answered )udinot."when anyone any-one knows uot how to obey, that is my lUitlhKl." The second anecdote is even more grim. Some on. spoke to ludinoi about the dee mtVeUon whieli a general gen-eral mustel.erish for his. devoted troop. '"Love them!" he exclaimed, "do 1 love them: Ah! I think I do! I have had them all killed!" There spoke the born fighter, who shirked no danger himself, and iie-connti'd iie-connti'd it the most enviable lot of a soldier sol-dier to die on the Held. BORN A FIGHTER. A French Soliiier WI10 Reveled in Scenes of Death. I Many men have made good soldiers ! and brave commanders who. neverthe- I les-s. had no rclUh fur fighting. Gen. ! ludinot. so faun ms in the wars of Xpoleon, was n warrior of another tvpe. says Youth's Companion. lie seeim'd, at all events, to love war for its own sake. His fiery temper and his ideal of a suhlk-r are widl exemplified in two brief anecdotes gal hered from Lis biography, rvecntly published. 1 n J uly. I ""-I, whf n Oudinot wa; thirtv-ciirht vears old. the emperor re- |