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When Jagg Flower was finishing his sentence in the prison at Toulouse, the authorities allowed him certain books wherewith to improve his mind and direct him to the higher life. One such book he remembers well. It opened thus: "Il y avait une fois vingt-cinq soldats de plomb, tous frères, tous nés d'une vieille cuillère de plomb. L'arme au bras, la tête droite, leur uniforme rouge et bleu n'était pas mal du tout."
"This," said Jagg Flower, as he flung the improving book from one end of the cell to the other, "is what makes prison life in France so immensely unpopular with the educated classes." Which was duly reported to the governor.