NAPOLEON'S LITTLE SIDE.
Mr. Norwood Young's "Napoleon in Exile." gives intimate glimpses of the life at St Helena. During the long and tedious voyage in the Northumberland. Napoleon dined with the officers, and took part in games of whist and other pastimes in the evening, and Aye are reminded that he astonished the British officers by his strange table habits, particularly his custom of using his fingers instead of a fork, while his habitual cheating at cards must have astounded his sportsmanlike captors There is something extremely ' pathetic to tho British idea in the spectacle of this great man surreptitiously revealing his hand at whist to his partner As illustrating the occasional littleness of the fallen Emperor, it is related that the natives of the island wero naturally curious as to the personality of one they had been taught to regard as the Corsican Ogre, and nurses would exhort good behaviour from their charges by threatening to hand them over to the Corsican. On one occasion Napoleon was informed that a little girl in a neighbouring house was extremely frightened of him, and when he accidentally met this youngster, he did not endeavour to reassure her, but with impish spiefulness he ruffled his hair, made a grimace accompanied by strange noises, until the child was nearly scared out of her wits.
A dear old citizen, went to the railir*,y station to sec his daughter off on a journey. Securing her a seat, he passed out of tho corridor carriage and went round to the open window to say a last parting word. While he was leaving the carriage the daughter crossed tho aisle_ to speak to a friend, and at the same time a grim old maid took the eeat and moved up to the window. Unaware of the change, the old gentleman hurriedly nut his head up to the window, and said. "One moro kiss, pet." In another instant the point of a cotton unibrolla, was thrust Arom tho window, followed by the wrathful injunction, "Bo off, you grey-headed ■r vetch. "-
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 137, 11 June 1915, Page 3
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342NAPOLEON'S LITTLE SIDE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 137, 11 June 1915, Page 3
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