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Excerpt from The Conscript: A Story of the French War of 1813
I was in my apprenticeship since 1804, with an Old watchmaker, Melchior Goulden, at Phalsbourg. As I seemed weak and was a little lame, my mother wished me to learn an easier trade than those of our village, for at Dagsberg there were only wood-cut ters and charcoal-burners. Monsieur Goulden liked me very much. We lived on the first story of a large house Opposite the Red Ox inn, and near the French gate.
That was the place to see princes, ambassadors, and generals come and go, some on horseback and some in carriages drawn by two or four horses; there they passed in embroidered uniforms, with waving plumes and decorations from every country under the sun. And in the highway what couriers, what baggage - wagons, what powder-trains, cannon, cais sons, cavalry, and infantry did we see! Those were stirring times!
In five or six years the innkeeper, George, had made a fortune. He had fields, orchards, houses, and money in abundance; for all these people, com ing from Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Poland, or elsewhere, cared little for a few handfuls Of gold scattered upon their road; they were all nobles, who took a pride in showing their prodigality.
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