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Updated: July 2, 2025
Never did it occur to Costecalde's mind to sing the Bezuquets', or the Bezuquets to try Costecalde's. And yet you may believe that they ought to know by heart what they had been singing for two-score years! But, nay! everybody stuck to his own,and they were all contented. In ballad-singing, as in cap-popping, Tartarin was still the foremost.
Finally, for as long as the menagerie remained in Tarascon, those hat hunters who had stayed late at Costecalde's could see in the shadows, as they passed the Place du Chateau, a figure pacing up and down behind the cages... it was Tartarin training himself to listen unmoved to the roaring of lions in the African night.
In the club-rooms or on the esplanade, they accosted poor Tartarin with bantering mien: "And furthermore, when is that trip coming off?" In Costecalde's shop, his opinions gained no credence, for the cap-poppers renounced their chief! Next, epigrams dropped into the affair.
For instance, it is an established fact that this is the chemist Bezuquet's family's: "Thou art the fair star that I adore!" The gunmaker Costecalde's family's: "Would'st thou come to the land Where the log-cabins rise?" The official registrar's family's: "If I wore a coat of invisible green, Do you think for a moment I could be seen?" And so on for the whole of Tarascon.
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