_By the Wall of the Soldiers' Home_

CHAPTER NINETEEN.

_The Little Corporal_

CHAPTER TWENTY.

"_Long Live the Emperor!_"




THE BOY LIFE OF NAPOLEON.



CHAPTER ONE.

IN NAPOLEON'S GROTTO.

On a certain August day, in the year 1776, two little girls were
strolling hand in hand along the pleasant promenade that leads from the
queer little town of Ajaccio out into the open country.

The town of Ajaccio is on the western side of the beautiful island of
Corsica, in the Mediterranean Sea. Back of it rise the great mountains,
white with snowy tops; below it sparkles the Mediterranean, bluest of
blue water. There are trees everywhere; there are flowers all about; the