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EVON AND FINETTE than he wished to appear. “I will not keep you back; I have no right to do so; but you are very young, my child; perhaps it would be better for you to stay another year with us." . 1 am sixteen, my father; at that age you had already fought one of the proudest lords of the country. I have not forgotten that our arms are a unicorn ripping up a lion, and our motto, Onward! I do not wish the Kervers to blush for their last child." Yvon received his father’s blessing, shook hands with his brothers, embraced his sisters, bid adieu to all the weeping vassals, and set out with a light heart. Nothing stopped him on his way. A river appeared, he swam it; a mountain, he climbed it; a forest, he made his way through it with the sun for a guide. ‘“‘On—the Kerver!”’ he cried, whenever he met with an obstacle, and went straight forward in spite of everything. For three years he had been roaming over the world in search of adventures, sometimes conquering, sometimes conquered, always bold and gay, when he received an offer to go to fight the heathen of Norway. To kill unbelievers and to conquer a kingdom was a double pleasure. Yvon enlisted twelve brave comrades, freighted a ship, and hoisted from the mainmast a blue standard with the unicorn and motto of the Kervers. I'he sea was calm, the wind fair, and the night serene. 2 5
