Many years ago, just after the establishment of' the glorious Republic, the writer of these lines was travelling in a remote mountain prefecture of a remote province in which " stalwart old general who had come up chu days because of great physical prowess and personal enjoyed dictatorial ud wielded it without too much injustice. In the course of conversation the qui of the new Republic came up for dis-ud, after smiling fully for a few minutes, he told the story of an experiment which he had made gri his little realm, The son of a friend had come back from the coast saturated with the theories of representative government and had urged the old man to put them into effect. After, much discussion he
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