Chapter I: Front Matter

</pre>

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

THE BLACKSMITH'S HAMMER

THE FULL SERIES OF

The Mysteries of the People

:: OR ::

History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages

By EUGENE SUE

_Consisting of the Following Works:_

THE GOLD SICKLE; or, _Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen_.
THE BRASS BELL; or, _The Chariot of Death_.
THE IRON COLLAR; or, _Faustina and Syomara_.
THE SILVER CROSS; or, _The Carpenter of Nazareth_.
THE CASQUE'S LARK; or, _Victoria, the Mother of the Camps_.
THE PONIARD'S HILT; or, _Karadeucq and Ronan_.
THE BRANDING NEEDLE; or, _The Monastery of Charolles_.
THE ABBATIAL CROSIER; or, _Bonaik and Septimine_.
THE CARLOVINGIAN COINS; or, _The Daughters of Charlemagne._
THE IRON ARROW-HEAD; or, _The Buckler Maiden_.
THE INFANT'S SKULL; or, _The End of the World_.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL; or, _Fergan the Quarryman_.
THE IRON PINCERS; or, _Mylio and Karvel_.
THE IRON TREVET; or, _Jocelyn the Champion_.
THE EXECUTIONER'S KNIFE; or, _Joan of Arc_.
THE POCKET BIBLE; or, _Christian the Printer_.
THE BLACKSMITH'S HAMMER; or, _The Peasant Code_.
THE SWORD OF HONOR; or, _The Foundation of the French Republic_.
THE GALLEY SLAVE'S RING; or, _The Family Lebrenn_.

Published Uniform With This Volume By
THE NEW YORK LABOR NEWS CO.
28 CITY HALL PLACE
NEW YORK CITY

THE BLACKSMITH'S HAMMER

: : OR : :

THE PEASANT CODE

A Tale of the Grand Monarch

By EUGENE SUE

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH By DANIEL DE LEON NEW YORK LABOR NEWS COMPANY. 1910

INDEX

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE v

INTRODUCTION 1

PART I. HOLLAND.

CHAPTER

I. THE ST. ELOI 5

II. BERTHA OF PLOUERNEL 11

III. THE HUGUENOT COLONEL 25

IV. THE LOST LETTER 33

V. JOHN DE WITT 54

VI. CORNELIUS DE WITT 79

VII. MOB-VERDICT 91

VIII. THE FLIGHT 103

PART II. BRITTANY.

I. NOMINOE 113

II. A BRETON WEDDING 122

III. THE RED-COATS 140

IV. DESERTED! 155

V. THE MYSTERY AT PLOUERNEL 164

VI. BERTHA AND NOMINOE 190

VII. EZ-LIBR 229

VIII. THE MANOR OF PLOUERNEL 251

IX. THE PEASANTS' DEFEAT 258

X. UNITED 265