The Great Shadow And Other Napoleonic Tales
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I bathed with him once in the summer, and I sawthen that he was haggled with wounds all over. Besides seven or eightscars and slashes, his ribs on one side were all twisted out of shape, and a part of one of his calves had been torn away. He laughed in hismerry way when he saw my face of wonder.
"Cossacks! Cossacks!" said he, running his hand over his scars. "And the ribs were broke by an artillery tumbril. It is very bad tohave the guns pass over one. Now with cavalry it is nothing. A horsewil...l pick its steps however fast it may go. I have been ridden over byfifteen hundred cuirassiers A and by the Russian hussars of Grodno, andI had no harm from that. But guns are very bad. " "And the calf?" I asked.
"_Pouf!_ It is only a wolf bite, " said he. "You would not think how Icame by it! You will understand that my horse and I had been struck, the horse killed, and I with my ribs broken by the tumbril. Well, itwas cold--oh, bitter, bitter!--the ground like iron, and no one to helpthe wounded, so that they froze into such shapes as would make yousmile.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I bathed with him once in the summer, and I sawthen that he was haggled with wounds all over. Besides seven or eightscars and slashes, his ribs on one side were all twisted out of shape, and a part of one of his calves had been torn away. He laughed in hismerry way when he saw my face of wonder.
"Cossacks! Cossacks!" said he, running his hand over his scars. "And the ribs were broke by an artillery tumbril. It is very bad tohave the guns pass over one. Now with cavalry it is nothing. A horsewil...l pick its steps however fast it may go. I have been ridden over byfifteen hundred cuirassiers A and by the Russian hussars of Grodno, andI had no harm from that. But guns are very bad. " "And the calf?" I asked.
"_Pouf!_ It is only a wolf bite, " said he. "You would not think how Icame by it! You will understand that my horse and I had been struck, the horse killed, and I with my ribs broken by the tumbril. Well, itwas cold--oh, bitter, bitter!--the ground like iron, and no one to helpthe wounded, so that they froze into such shapes as would make yousmile.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Doyle Arthur Conan Sir to read onlineMoreLess
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