BADLY CRIPPLED.
A party of tourists, including three or four boys and girls, were not long ago visiting an ancient church in a French provincial city. An aged beadle showed them the objects of interest.
‘ Whose portrait is this ?’ asked one of the girls, indicating an ancient canvas upon which the face and form of a man in armour could barely be made out. ‘ That,’ said the beadle, after stopping to take a pinch of snuff,’ is the celebrated Grand Duke Anatole, the founder of the church.'
* Was he a great soldier ’’ ‘ Yes ; but he had the misfortune to lose a leg or an arm in every battle in which he took part.’ ‘How many battles did he take part in!’ asked one of the boys. The beadle, who was expecting a sneeze, looked skyward a minute, then sneezed violently, used his handkerchief and nswered : * Twenty-four !’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 5, 4 February 1893, Page 119
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146BADLY CRIPPLED. New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 5, 4 February 1893, Page 119
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