" "Here's a cap, lads!" shouted a Preobrazhensk soldier, donning a shaggy French cap.

"It's a fine thing! First-rate!" "Have you heard the password?" asked one Guards' officer of another.

"The day before yesterday it was 'Napoleon, France, bravoure'; yesterday, 'Alexandre, Russie, grandeur.

' One day our Emperor gives it and next day Napoleon.