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Posted: 24 Oct 2009 09:30 PM PDT They thought more of the Legion of Honor in the time of the first Napoleon than they do now. The emperor one day met an old one-armed veteran. "How did you lose your arm?" he asked. "Sire, at Austerlitz." "And were you not decorated?" "No, sire." "Then here is my own cross for you; I make you chevalier." "Your Majesty names me chevalier because I have lost one arm. What would your Majesty have done had I lost both arms?" "Oh, in that case I should have made you Officer of the Legion." Whereupon the old soldier immediately drew his sword and cut off his other arm. There is no particular reason to doubt this story. The only question is, how did he do it? |
Posted: 24 Oct 2009 09:28 PM PDT |
Posted: 24 Oct 2009 09:27 PM PDT Eugene Field was at a dinner in London when the conversation turned to the subject of lynching in the United States. It was the general opinion that a large percentage of Americans met death at the end of a rope. Finally the hostess turned to Field and asked: "You, sir, must have often seen these affairs?" "Yes," replied Field, "hundreds of them." "Oh, do tell us about a lynching you have seen yourself," broke in half a dozen voices at once. "Well, the night before I sailed for England," said Field, "I was giving a dinner at a hotel to a party of intimate friends when a colored waiter spilled a plate of soup over the gown of a lady at an adjoining table. The gown was utterly ruined, and the gentlemen of her party at once seized the waiter, tied a rope around his neck, and at a signal from the injured lady swung him into the air." "Horrible!" said the hostess with a shudder. "And did you actually see this yourself?" "Well, no," admitted Field apologetically. "Just at that moment I happened to be downstairs killing the chef for putting mustard in the blanc mange." |
Posted: 24 Oct 2009 09:23 PM PDT |
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