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And vainly did they make application to the deputy-mayor, and then to the first municipal councillor. They received no news from Villers. No doubt the inhabitants were jealous about their fossils unless they had sold them to the English. The journey to the Hachettes was determined upon. Bouvard and Pécuchet took the public conveyance from Falaise to Caen.
As to his history, it was comprised in one of the volumes of the Lisieux Academy, and he could not lend his own copy, as he was afraid of spoiling the collection. With regard to the alligator, it had been discovered in the month of November, 1825, under the cliff of the Hachettes of Sainte-Honorine, near Port-en-Bessin, in the arrondissement of Bayeux. His compliments followed.
Then a covered car brought them from Caen to Bayeux; from Bayeux, they walked to Port-en-Bessin. They had not been deceived. There were curious stones alongside the Hachettes; and, assisted by the directions of the innkeeper, they succeeded in reaching the strand. The tide was low. It exposed to view all its shingles, with a prairie of sea-wrack as far as the edge of the waves.
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