. Life in the Tuileries under the second empire. bleto mount his impatient horse, scared as it was bythe fire. One by one the troopers galloped by thePrince, who, as he ran alongside his now maddenedhorse, was endeavoring in vain to mount. And not one of gave him a helping handto hold the horse one moment, which would have en-abled such a perfect horseman to vault into the saddle. Mr. Forbes continues: The Prince was left aloneto his fate. The horse strained after that of Lecocq,who then saw the doomed Prince holding his stir-rup-leather in one hand, grasping reins and pommelwith the
. Life in the Tuileries under the second empire. bleto mount his impatient horse, scared as it was bythe fire. One by one the troopers galloped by thePrince, who, as he ran alongside his now maddenedhorse, was endeavoring in vain to mount. And not one of gave him a helping handto hold the horse one moment, which would have en-abled such a perfect horseman to vault into the saddle. Mr. Forbes continues: The Prince was left aloneto his fate. The horse strained after that of Lecocq,who then saw the doomed Prince holding his stir-rup-leather in one hand, grasping reins and pommelwith the other, and trying to remount on the doubt he made one desperate effort, trusting tothe strength of his grasp on the band of leathercrossing the pommel from holster to holster. Thatband tore under the strain. I inspected it next day,and found it no leather at all, but paper-faced — sothat the Princes fate was really attributable toshoddy saddlery. Lecocq saw the Prince fall back-ward, and his horse tread on him and then gallop ■L 111. THE PRINCE IMPKRIAL, IN ARTILLERY UNIFORM. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH Br THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO, UNDER THE SECOND EMPIRE 273 away. According to him, the Prince regained hisfeet, and ran at full speed toward the donga, on thetrack of the retreating party. When, for the lasttime, the Jerseyman turned round in the saddle, hesaw the Prince still running, pursued only a fewyards behind by some twelve or fourteen Zulus, as-segais in hand, which they were throwing at save the slayers saw the tragedy enacted inthe donga. When the Empress Eugenie went to see the spotwhere her gallant son had met his fate, the Zuluswho had attacked him were discovered and ques-tioned ; they all said that when he saw he was for-saken and could not escape, he turned on us like ayoung lion, and made a desperate defense. Thebody when found had seventeen wounds, one inthe right eye, from an assegai, which the surgeonsdeemed was the first received, and immediately
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