text:  The minstrel was ragged and pale and had evidently met with no small share of the buffets of fortune; but cheered by our approval he volunteered to sing the masterpiece of his collection--"The Rising of the Vendee"--the rallying-song of the insurrection a performance chanted by the Vendean army in the field by the Vendean peasant in his cottage and which he now gave us with all the enthusiasm of one who had fought and suffered in the cause