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xteen he carried a rifle and was a bit of a pugilist. He was a volunteer for the Algerian campaign in 1841, and commenced the life of adventures which has been terminated in so untimely a manner. He describes, in his well-known work "Le Tueur de Lions " (1857 and 1858), how it came to pass that a poor dwarf of a creature like him ventured to declare war against the giant of the woods--"one against one; chance for chance; God alone being a witness of the fight." Not long after his arrival at Bona he heard of the terrible lion of the Archiona, which had committed unheard-of devastations among villagers and troops alike. Said Gerard magnanimously, "If it pleases God, I who am not an Arab, will kill the lion, and he shall not devour you any more." His heart, he tells us, bounded for joy at the coming fight. "Soon this all-powerful lord, the terror of the country, will bite the dust under the ball of a dog of a Christian." The villagers were incredulous, and intimated to Jules that, if h