Emma  Sanson  thus  describes  the  incident:
“About  eight  or  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning,  a


EMMA  SANSON


company  of  men  wearing  blue  uniforms  and  rid¬
ing  mules  and  horses  galloped  past  the  house  and
went  on  to  the  bridge.  Pretty  soon  a  great  crowd
of  them  came  along,  and  some  of  them  stopped


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at  the  gate  and  asked  us  to  bring  water.  Sister
and  I  each  took  a  bucket  of  water,  and  gave  it
to  them  at  the  gate.  One  of  them  asked  me
where  my  father  was.
