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Show I Should Work Both Ways. I After the battle of Denaln, in vhich he had lost an arm, one of Marshal Vlllars' bravest officers presented a petition to Louts XIV, soliciting a pension pen-sion by way of recompense for his services. The king took tho paper and, according to his wont, replied that he would see about It. "Sire." objected ob-jected the officer, "if, Instead of attacking at-tacking your majesty's enemies at the head of my company, I had contented myself with 'seeing about it,' I should still hav my arm." |