Une captive à Carlsruhe et d'autres camps de prisonniers allemands, avec de nombreuses illustrations par l'auteur . alarme a été terminée. Et-les quatre aviateurs et l'fourcivilians étaient couchés très calme ! Une inimitable imitateur Parfois, après l'extinction des feux, un warningsiren serait soufflée en camp, qui theinitiated simpty, D, faites attention que le capitaine 104 CAPTIFS À UN CARLSKUHE Teixeira, notre imitateur inimitable, avait amicalement beeiinduced pour donner une performanceTil en pourrait être entendu le Capitaine sawinghis^y WB à la liberté, à la mise en o le guardFollowed déconcerté imitation o;tous les oiseaux dans tinfarmyard, une

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A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . alarm was over. And—the four aviators and the fourcivilians were lying very quiet! An Inimitable Imitator Sometimes, after lights out, a warningsiren would be blown in camp, which, to theinitiated, simpty made warning that Captain 104 A CAPTIVE AT CARLSKUHE Teixeira, our inimitable imitator, had beeiinduced good-naturedly to give a performanceTil en might be heard the Captain sawinghis WB^y to freedom, to the bringing in o the disconcerted guardFollowed imitation o;all the fowls in tinfarmyard, and all tinfeathers in the forest.or, most humorous ojall, an infant crying^ in the night, and wittno language but acry. Perhaps I woulcsuggest twins, whereatthe Captain, who is afamily man, would re-vert to poultr)% andgive an imitation oian exultant hen, whose cackling we foundnone the less reahstic in that we have a tinof eggs and bacon under Avay for to-morrows breakfast. Captain Teixeira could not only imitatethe song of birds. He was a singer him-self. Among many other manifestations of. CAPTAIN TEIXEIRA. I SONGS FKOM COIMBRA 105 friendship, he gave me a set of improvisa-tions, Songs from Coimbra —Coimbra, aUniversity town and capital of the Portugueseprovince of Beira, giving its name to thatschool of poetry which had inception in 1848with the pubUcation of 0 Trovador. Ihave made effort to convert these Cantares into English verse : I Let my coffin be Of shape strange and bizarre—The shape of a heart, The shape of a guitar ! II If a man should be slain, And a cross mark his rest. He shall also have grave. Little brown girl, in your breast! Ill There are caverns in my breastAs in the bottoms of the sea Fashioned by tides of tears.And sorrows surging in me- IV Some day when I die O love, warm and rare, In a shroud let me lie Of your shadowy hair. 106 A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE A German Bombardment One afternoon German aviators bombarded the camp—ver}^ harmlessly, howeve—

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