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Excerpt from Life and Battles of Napoleon Bonaparte: In Words of One Syllable
He liked to hear tales of war, and his toys were of the kind that stirred his heart. He would leave bat, or ball, or kite, to set his toy troops in rank, and sweep them away with his toy gun. He would sit for hours, while he played that the mock foe ?ed from him, and their mock dead lay on the ground.
Ma dame Bo na parte was quite poor. A kind old man, near kin to her, let them stay in the house where they lived, for they did not own it. They had food and clothes, but the boys knew what it was to want. There was no cash to spare in that house. When they asked. Their old friend for it he would say, I have land, vines, beasts and fowl, but I have no gold.
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