THE TURCO OF THE
COMMUNE

IE was a little drummer of the
native musketeers. He was
called Kadour, of the tribe

of Djendal, and formed one of that

handful of Arabs who threw themselves
into Paris at the heels of Vinoy’s army.

From Wissembourg up to Champigny

he had followed all the campaign,

flitting through the battlefields like a

petrel on the wing, with his iron

castanets and his derbouka (Arab
drum) ; always on the move, and so
swift that the balls had no chance to
hit him. But when the winter was
come, this little bronzed African, burnt