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"Don't make me laugh too loud," returned Vane, "or the Boche might hear; unless you've killed 'em all . . ." "You're wrong, my friend utterly wrong." They came to where the railway track crossed the road and he halted to pull out his pipe, before getting on to the little engine. "I tell you, Vane . . ." And at that moment a flight of cockchafers seemed to sweep down the road.

'That is the right spirit for a picnic, said Ida, 'People with grand ideas are not wanted. 'And I suppose in the evening you will join in the dumb charades, and play hide-and-seek in the garden, all among spiders and cockchafers. 'I will do anything I am told to do, answered Brian, cheerily. 'But I think the season of the cockchafer is over. 'What has become of Dr.

"My fine vicar," said Madame Diana, in his ear, "suppose I were spiteful?" "Madame," said Rabelais, "was it not well then of me to warn the king, your master, against the queen's Italians, who are as plentiful here as cockchafers?" "Poor preacher," said Cardinal Odet, in his ear, "go to another country." "Ah! monsieur," replied the old fellow, "ere long I shall be in another land." "God's truth!

This is the composition of the Cabinet: Raymond, the Bureau of Public Instruction; Martial, the Interior; and for Foreign Affairs, myself." His time done, he wandered again around Paris, watched afar by the police, after the fashion of cockchafers, made by cruel children to fly at the end of a string.

Dot shuddered at the idea of eating snake for breakfast, and the Kookooburra thought she was afraid of being poisoned. "It won't hurt you," he said kindly, "I took care that it did not bite itself. Sometimes they do that when they are dying, and then they're not good to eat. But this snake is all right, and won't disagree like cockchafers: the scales are quite soft and digestible," he added.

It seemed to Tom, as he stood looking down, note-book in hand, that some of the actual malarious air of the coast had been carried home in the hold, so foul and close were the smells evolved from it. Great cockchafers crawled about over the packages, and occasionally a rat would scamper over the barrels, such a rat as is only to be found in ships which hail from the tropics.

Amedee's neighbor, one of the future citizens preparing for social life several with patches upon their trousers had been naughty enough to bring into class a handful of cockchafers. He was punished by a quarter of an hour's standing up, which he did soon after, sulking at the foot of the sycamore-tree in the large court.

Butterflies, cockchafers, dragon-flies, everything that could fly came to pay a visit. They could all talk. They told of the village, of the vineyard, of the forest, of the old castle with its parks and canals and ponds. Down in the water dwelt also living beings, which, in their way, could fly under the water from one place to another beings with knowledge and delineation.

And thereupon the head clerk sat down at his table, and the others followed his example. "Ready?" "Yes," replied the two copying-clerks and the engrosser, whose pens forthwith began to creak over the stamped paper, making as much noise in the office as a hundred cockchafers imprisoned by schoolboys in paper cages. "And we hope that my lords on the Bench," the extemporizing clerk went on. "Stop!

With all that, he was the best fellow in the world, and he was always contriving some mischief or other. Pantagruel, being pleased with him, gave him the castellany of Salmigondin, which was yearly worth 6,789,106,789 royals of certain rent; besides the uncertain revenue of cockchafers and snails, amounting one year with another to the value of 2,435,768, or 2,435,769 French crowns of Berry.

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