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"Karadeucq, my son, make not such impious vows on such a stormy night as this it may bring ill luck I have never heard the enraged sea roar like this it sounds like thunder " "Good mother, I would brave murky darkness, tempest and thunder to see a Korrigan!" "Hold your tongue, rash boy, hold your tongue do not say such words!" "What a bold and venturesome lad you are, my boy!"

His disappearance gave so much pain to our grandfather Araim that he died of a broken heart, and shortly after we lost our mother, who was almost crazed with grief. Our father Jocelyn alone withstood the bereavement. Oh, our brother Karadeucq was but too heavily punished for wishing to see the Korrigans!" "The Korrigans, aunt Roselyk!" cried Yvon, Kervan's son.

"The little fairies of olden times, of which good old Gildas, the shearer of the sheep, often talks? They have not been seen in this country for a long time, neither the Korrigans nor the other little dwarfs, called Dus." "Fortunately, my boy, the country is now free from those evil sprites but for them your uncle Karadeucq might now be in our midst by the fireplace."

"Near the frontier of Limousin; over the gallows was this inscription: 'This is Karadeucq the Vagre so shall his likes be treated." "Karadeucq! The old bandit who with his bedevilled band so long raided Limousin and Auvergne!" "Pillaging burgs and episcopal mansions!" "A worthy example, followed by the band of Ronan, the other dog that is to be executed to-morrow!"

Say, young man, are you the son of Karadeucq?" The answer of Ronan the Vagre was to throw himself on the neck of his father's brother, after which he embraced no less effusively Martha, Roselyk and Yvon. After the tears were dried and the first emotion appeased, the first words that simultaneously parted from the lips of Kervan and Roselyk were: "And our brother, our beloved Karadeucq?

I was thinking that on a somewhat similar stormy night, Joel and his son, both greedy after stories like the inquisitive Gauls that they were " "Did the trick of stopping a traveler at the pass of Craig'h, binding him fast, and carrying him home to tell stories " "And the traveler happened to be the Chief of the Hundred Valleys a hero!" "Oh! Oh! How your eyes sparkle as you speak, Karadeucq."

Only you and I! Karadeucq, if I can see how we are to come out of this fix, I shall be willing to become a bear in truth not a trick bear, as now I am, but a real bear!

"Was it in Anjou that you met that troop of Bagauders?" "Yes, in Anjou in a forest about eight leagues from Angers, whither I was then bound " "Do you notice my pet Karadeucq? Look at him! See how his eyes sparkle and his cheeks burn. Truly, if he does not dream of little Korrigans to-night, he will surely dream of Bagauders. Am I wrong, my lad?"

"Come, dear wife, your fears only show weakness." "Mothers are weak and timid, Jocelyn. We must not tempt God " Old Araim stops working for a moment at his net; his head drops on his chest. "What is the matter, folks? You seem to be in a brown study! Do you fear, like Madalen, that danger may threaten Karadeucq just because, on such a tempestuous night as this, he wishes to see a Korrigan?"

These two narratives contain the adventures of my brother Karadeucq and of his two sons Loysik and Ronan.