Crossword-Solution: TAUPIN 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

There was a sergeant of justice named Franc-Taupin, who was an old lump of mischief, always grumbling, always fighting; stiff and starchy, and never comforting those he was leading to the hulks, with little jokes by the way; and in short, he was just the man to find lice in bald heads, and bad behaviour in the Almighty.

This said Taupin, spurned by every one, took unto himself a wife, and by chance he was blessed with one as mild as the peel of an onion, who, noticing the peculiar humour of her husband, took more pains to bring joy to his house than would another to bestow horns upon him.

But for that d----d Corporal Taupin--the drunken Frenchman showed himself before I’d surrounded the _maquis_--we should have had them all like fish in a net.” “Are there only seven of you here?” inquired Colomba.

The sergeant, still cursing Corporal Taupin--“that dog of a Frenchman”--gave the order to retire, and his little party moved toward Pietranera, carrying the _pilone_ and the cooking-pot; as for the pitcher, its fate was settled with a kick.

The marsh was crossed, the hill climbed, and with a sudden and deafening shout--the cheer which has a more full and terrible note than any other voice of fighting men, the shout of the British regiment as it charges--the 52nd dashed between Foy and Taupin.