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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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such a creature into thatcave, and shut the door upon him, as he said he had done, butyou find it so. How came he in and the door shut, else ? Itwas not five minutes before that we saw the creature before us;and this man, you all saw, was there by himself. How it couldbe otherwise, I own to me is amazing ! I desire my lord, con-tinued he to the nobleman who was their interpreter, that youtake care thai; I see this wonder of a man to-morrow. So theking rode in pursuit of his sport; and the nobleman, accordingto his majestys command, staid with the Welshman to give himdirections where he should come to him the next day, in order tohis being introduced to the king and court. Accordingly, theWelshman came, and the nobleman carried him immediately tohis majesty, who, when he demanded a farther account from himconcerning the wild boar, the Welshman told him the very samestory, without variation. Then his majesty asked him what re-ligion ho was of; but the Welshman could give him very little
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THE WILD BOAR AND THE WELSHMAN. 149 account of that. He was very much pleased at the fine appear-ance of the gens darmes, or life guards, and told his majesty,that if he would give him a horse, and make him one ofthose fine folks, he should be obliged to hur. At this the kingwas a little surprised, that he asked for nothing better; but,however, he gave orders that he should be immediately equipped.And he was no sooner initiated into the corps, but all the French-men therein wished him any where else, and contracted a mightymixture of fear and hatred for him ; for not a man in the troopdared to contradict him. The story of his putting the wild boar into the cave, was suffi-cient to intimidate the boldest of them. At length, the Welsh-man having been a kind of lawgiver amongst them a great whilewithout the least interruption, they now began to scheme andform a plot against him, in order, if possible, to lower his mettle.So they went privately through the corps and raised by subscrip-tio

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