I remember when people in England changed a shirt only once a week: a Pandour, when he gets a shirt, greases it to make it last.

" "Do you not consider the Pandours, then, as such?" "I visited their chief solely as a relative.

Here he delayed for a time in the hope of meeting with his cousin the Pandour.

PANDOUR, A., v. 60.

PANDOURS, a name given to a body of light-infantry at one time in the Austrian service, levied among the Slavs on the Turkish frontier, and now incorporated as a division of the regular army.

TRENCK, BARON VON, general, first in the service of Austria, then of Russia; dismissed from both; commanded a regiment of pandours in the Austrian Succession War in the interest of Maria Theresa; tried to capture Frederick the Great; was caught, tried, and condemned to prison, escaped, was captured, and took poison; had a cousin with a similar fate (1711-1749).

"People," said he, "I have knocked down a hundred beggarly pandours, who respect neither sex nor infirmity.

Drink the little glass of brandy Gothon just brought you; but for God's sake give up the habit of calling me rascal, of calling my mother 'Good Mother,' and of flinging our friends into the street and calling them beggarly pandours!"