Come on."
IV.
First (and last) round. --The soldier did "Come on," frowning. Jones
received him, smiling. --The soldier made play with his musket: Jones
put in his left. They closed, and a terrific struggle ensued, in the
course of which Jones got his adversary's "Nob" into "Chancery."
V.
The soldier, at this point, unable to use his arms, took to his legs,
and administered a series of kicks upon the shins of Jones, who in
return seized him, lifted him in the air, and threw him.
VI.
Then, considering that justice and the honour of his country were alike
satisfied, he retired, leaving the body of his antagonist on the field.
VII.
Shows the "body," on discovering that life was not extinct, attempting
to rise.
P.S. --He was last seen making frantic efforts to regain his feet, and
seemingly prevented from doing so by the weight of his knapsack, and
other accoutrements.
VIII.
Jones was late at breakfast; he found Robinson reading "Galignani," and
Brown looking out of window, and after giving them an amusing account of
the fun he had had, was just sitting down to the table, when Brown
shouted out, "By Jove, there is a regiment of soldiers coming down the
street!"
IX.
At first Jones was incredulous; but presently Brown, his hair standing
on end, rushed towards him, and in a voice of agony, cried, "As sure as
we are alive they have stopped in front of the house, and the _OFFICER
IS COMING IN!_"
X.
It was too true. The soldiers had come to look after the Englishman who
had attacked and beaten their comrade.
XI.
After a few moments of breathless suspense, the officer enters--Jones
stands like a man about to struggle with adversity.
XII.
Nevertheless he is arrested and marched off.
XIII.
Robinson, in agony, calls for his coat and hat, "For," as he cried out
to Brown, "not a moment is to be lost in endeavouring to see the British
Minister."
XIV.
They gain an audience of His Excellency the British Minister, and ask
his interference in behalf of a persecuted countryman.
We are happy to add that the interference was quite successful. Jones
was liberated immediately, and shortly afterwards the British Minister
for Foreign Affairs, in a despatch to the German Minister for the same,
expressed his conviction that "The whole civilised world reprobated,
with one voice, a system at once tyrannical and cruel, a remnant of the
darkest ages of man's history, and
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