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carriage. One day Napoleon had given him a little box, made by Piron, full of bon-bons: when my brother had eaten all his sugar-plums, and was grieving over his exhausted store, he unluckily chanced to espy a pill-box, which, with other medicines, had been inadvertently placed on a bench in the garden; he carefully put some of its contents into his bonbonnière, and gravely walking up to the emperor, presented it. Napoleon, always good-natured to the child, and supposing them to be sugar-plums, helped himself to one, and began eating it. I need not say how soon it was ejected, and what coughing and nausea ensued, when my little brother's mischievous trick was divulged, and it was found that pills of a very unpalatable nature had been offered to and swallowed by the emperor. The poor little fellow got soundly whipped by my father, to whom his naughty conduct had been made known by Las Cases, who witnessed the joke and inı-

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