I was taking a tour around a museum the other day looking at portraits of French war heroes.

The tour guide explained, โ€œMany of the people in these portraits were wounded in battle. A single musket shot could end in an amputation of an entire limb.โ€

Among the paintings of great heroes was a painting of several severed ears. I asked, โ€œWhat is this painting doing here?โ€

The tour guide replied, โ€œOh! Those are the three musket ears.โ€

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