Show ONEEYED GAMBETTA The story that Gambetta poked out one of his own eyes when a child because be-cause his father would not permit him to do as he pleased is perfectly true What is not so generally known is that the elder Gambetta remained inflexible even after this display of wilfulness The boy was being educated at the Lycee of Cahors and conceiving a dislike to the institution asked to be removed from it His father refueed again and again At last Iron said Ill put out one of my eyes if you send me back to the Lycee It was holiday time As you please said the father to whom it seems never to have occurred that hislboy might i have inherited his own strength of purpose The same day Leon took not a penknife as popular tra dition has itbut an inkstand which lie dashed with such violence against the eve as to destroy it Shocked as was fpldfGambetta he would not give in Leon returned to the Lycee |