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Show A Soldier' 8 Age Napoleon in his Italian successes captured a Hungarian battalion. The colonel, an old man, said that he had fought in the army of Maria Theresa. "You must be old," said Napoleon. "Yss, I am," the colonel replied, "either sixty or seventy." "Why. colonel," exclaimed Napoleon, "you have certainly lived long enough to know how to count years a little more closely." "General," replied the Hungarian, "I reckon my money, my shirts and my horses, but as for my years I know that no one will want to steal them, and that I shall never lose one of them." Youth's Companion. |