Show TOLD OF G A ANECDOTES OF ENFANT TER 1 OF FRENCH ARMY once at a wineglass WIn eglar on a wager how he attempted to lead a cavalry charge down a steep embankment there li is hardly a part paris paper which doe does not every few day days print a tor stor about the lite ute marquis general de Gall iffet ho crowned an adae adventure ad ventur 12 tur ous ou career by accepting the portfolio of war var in the cabinet of republican defense only to find end himself face to face with at Millem nd the socialist minister of commerce whose father Cal callines linet had once ordered to be shot that wa as during the commune 1 I forgive you said the ion son cor car bially 1 I bad had ne idea he waa was uch such a bad father remark remarks 4 to lh acquis dryly refusing to take the proS r 02 ared band hand A volume oc of bae has been compiled by I 1 M lul thomas some of the stories told of and by the cv airy alry officer who was an enfant terrible all his long life are new now here Is a bet of Call iffet a one evening when I 1 wa quite a young oung officer I 1 bet that I 1 woula eat tat a v fineglass ine glass etem stem and all and I 1 did I 1 took some time about it but I 1 ate it my mouth was bleeding when 1 bad done but I 1 went to bed all right at birk the morning I 1 woke up in fearful pain I 1 tried to think what I 1 had eaten and then I 1 remembered it was the wineglass of course I 1 proceeded to kick myself I 1 aid said you re an ase ass you vere were fotna to die for your country and now you are going to die in your bed ted because of a driveling and disgusting bet while I 1 cursed myself the pain topped stopped I 1 turned around went to deep sleep and woke up fresh and fit in the morning and thought no more I 1 I 1 about the win atlass some eay say that the pluck which gal llafet certainly had came from a good digestion which be he certainly seems to have had also here li Is a military anecdote of him during ome some maneuvers be waa was watching a charge of cavalry under his orders suddenly the leading squadron equa dron topped stopped dead Gall iffet roared send me the colo colonell nelt and he galloped up now wow colonel what a wrong we came upon a road at the bottom of an embank mart too steep to ride down clr Nonsense No neenie sirl you tou are pot not lit or 0 your job I 1 will lead the charge you go to the tall of the squadron qu adron took the command gal loped ped to the road and rolled down the embankment with hta his horse ly ing in on hie his back with a sprained mus cle CIO in his leg he shouted to hie his men to top stop adding send me the colonel the colonel came up from the tall of the squadron qu adron colonel you were right I 1 am a blank fool you may malt take the command of your regiment 4 again toward the end of his hi life when in a bad temper Gall iffet insisted Inel sted on calling himself a played out old idiot journalists would try to Int elew him and he generally bowed showed them the door with a voluble speech no air lr every one know known I 1 am an old fool if I 1 were to talk to you everybody would say ay what does that blank blank dotard Gall iffet want to be b talking for fort who want wants to know what the decrepit old inner sinner tb think Inks and you my dear tr ir what would people SAY ar acut ou that you ere the blankest ac art in the press to aek ask tho the opinion of A 16 mile idiot like Galli tret about anything now I 1 dont jont want people to call you roll an ar ass that is why I 1 wont won t tell ou anything good dyl dayl |