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Updated: May 21, 2025
I have just come back after waiting there for five hours, and you did not come." "I did go there, good and charitable lady!" replied the mattress-picker. "But there was a game at pool going on at the Cafe des Savants, Rue du Cerf-Volant, and every man has his fancy. Now, mine is billiards. If it wasn't for billiards, I might be eating off silver plate.
I have just come back after waiting there for five hours, and you did not come." "I did go there, good and charitable lady!" replied the mattress-picker. "But there was a game at pool going on at the Cafe des Savants, Rue du Cerf-Volant, and every man has his fancy. Now, mine is billiards. If it wasn't for billiards, I might be eating off silver plate.
'Cerf-volant, a name which the French have so happily given to the horned scarabeus, the same which we somewhat less poetically call the 'stag-beetle, is another example of what may be effected with the old materials, by merely bringing them into new and happy combinations. You know the appearance of the lizard, and the star-like shape of the spots which are sown over its back.
He was told that another cerf-volant should be made for him at the journey's end; but was only partially consoled, and his mother was fain to compound for a box of woolly lambs.
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