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Then the laughter burst forth more boisterously than before. "A wire, you young rascal! Are you making fun of me?" shouted Boucheseiche, "come down this moment!" "Here he is, Monsieur," replied the lad, throwing himself down with the squirrel which he tossed at the collector's feet. When Boucheseiche verified the fact that the squirrel was a stuffed specimen, he gave a resounding oath.
"He has caught hold of something," said the notary, facetiously. "Ah! you will hold on, you rascal, will you?" shouted Boucheseiche, beside himself with excitement, and the next moment he sent a second shot, which sent the hair flying in all directions. The creature remained in the same position. Then there was a general roar. "He is quite obstinate!" remarked the clerk, slyly.
At the same time he pointed out a squirrel, sitting perched upon a branch, about halfway up the tree. The animal's tail stood up behind like a plume, his ears were upright, and he had his front paws in his mouth, as if cracking a nut. "A squirrel!" cried the impetuous Boucheseiche, immediately falling into the snare; "let no one touch him, gentlemen I will settle his account for him."
Boucheseiche, astonished, looked attentively at the tree, then at the laughing crowd, and could not understand the situation. "If I were in your place, Collector," said Claudet, in an insinuating manner, "I should climb up there, to see " But Justin Boucheseiche was not a climber. He called a youngster, who followed the hunt as beater-up.
"In the name of ! who is the miscreant that has perpetrated this joke?" No one could reply for laughing. Then ironical cheers burst forth from all sides. "Brave Boucheseiche! That's a kind of game one doesn't often get hold of!" "We never shall see any more of that kind!" "Let us carry Boucheseiche in triumph!" And so they went on, marching around the tree.
"Possibly, but appetite comes with eating, and when once you have tasted of the pleasures of the chase, you will want to imitate your companions. Now, see here: we have organized a party at Charbonniere to-morrow, for the gentlemen of Auberive; there will be some people you know Destourbet, justice of the Peace, the clerk Seurrot, Maitre Arbillot and the tax-collector, Boucheseiche.
"Possibly, but appetite comes with eating, and when once you have tasted of the pleasures of the chase, you will want to imitate your companions. Now, see here: we have organized a party at Charbonniere to-morrow, for the gentlemen of Auberive; there will be some people you know Destourbet, justice of the Peace, the clerk Seurrot, Maitre Arbillot and the tax-collector, Boucheseiche.
"Possibly, but appetite comes with eating, and when once you have tasted of the pleasures of the chase, you will want to imitate your companions. Now, see here: we have organized a party at Charbonniere to-morrow, for the gentlemen of Auberive; there will be some people you know Destourbet, justice of the Peace, the clerk Seurrot, Maitre Arbillot and the tax-collector, Boucheseiche.
At the same time he pointed out a squirrel, sitting perched upon a branch, about halfway up the tree. The animal's tail stood up behind like a plume, his ears were upright, and he had his front paws in his mouth, as if cracking a nut. "A squirrel!" cried the impetuous Boucheseiche, immediately falling into the snare; "let no one touch him, gentlemen I will settle his account for him."
Boucheseiche, astonished, looked attentively at the tree, then at the laughing crowd, and could not understand the situation. "If I were in your place, Collector," said Claudet, in an insinuating manner, "I should climb up there, to see " But Justin Boucheseiche was not a climber. He called a youngster, who followed the hunt as beater-up.
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