Le soldat qui lui avait parlé, et qui s’était arrêté à dix pas pour nettoyer la batterie de son fusil avec son mouchoir, s’approcha et lui jeta un morceau de pain, puis, voyant qu’il ne le ramassait pas, le soldat lui mit un morceau de ce pain dans la bouche.
The soldier who had spoken to him, and who had stopped ten paces off to clean the lock of his musket with his handkerchief, came nearer and flung him a lump of bread; then, seeing that he did not pick it up, broke off a piece which he put in our hero's mouth.