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of loyalty which burned deep in our hearts A play was attracting a good deal of attention in Paris just then called "l'Oncle Sam" in which some of our national traits were conspicuously ridiculed Several of our men attended it one evening and during the entre acts tried to comfort themselves at the neighboring cafe at the end of the play as the audience was dispersing through the Lobby Pardissus no doubt his anger augmented by the various consoling petit-venus which had been absorbed to occasion to publicly express his loyalty to America and disgust at such an unfair presentment of our people The camarads could not quiet him and the "sergots" were called in  This he took as a personal affront and as he was very powerful and a distinguished boxer it was some time before his patriotism was