A Hero

Miss Pardon, in a reeeot work, routes the following interesting anecdote.; , At tlie battlo of Aloutiuirall, a young officor, nameJ Durosicr ehanced to bp in attendanee on the Kmperor at the moment wheu it bccamo essential to dispateli au order to one of tlie Generáis o.f División and Napoleon liastily sumtnoning him to his side, gave htm iustructions to delive;- it without delay. ■ " Spare neither yourself nor liorso, sir," lie said Bteruly, ' tbr tliere is not a moment to loss! and rotara at once to report to me that mv orior has boen obnyéd." Durosier galloped off amid a shower of s!;ot and slielis, and within B quarter of au hour lie was again boside the Einpcror. His duty was perforriied. " You hiivo behaved well, Monsieur," said Napoleon wt)M he had reeeived hii report ; " you have a stout heart and a olear he.ad, though you are only a joungster. I give you a captaiu's brevet aud attaeh you to my porsou. What is your BMDO? ' " Burosier, sirc.'1 " It seems familiar to me. On what occasion have I bt-foro heard itV" " I was the Colonel of th.o boy ba tallion, your majesty." ' Ah ! I romomber. V ol!, tbat is an ndditional reason why I should attaoli you to my person ." '■ It is too lute, sire," muroiured the yonna soldier. " Too late, Captain Durosier, and why Í" ' Sire they have hit me," as he poifö he withdrew a haodberchief ;vJÍ-i ■F. ■ ■ ' All w beover'. Vire 11o reclci] for ■ 1 tiifi feil liciivily Lntrt t!io arms ol ■ ■ -. ,-: ' ' wv.A ' (i ll '" es ■ . . "To i J, - !"' Tin ■ ■■■il !)!t liors ', lie gallupcd off, as .; uuublo to lingr óvur su Bid :; ; ;