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Not here to see the darling of the Douars; the pride of every Chacal, Zephyr, and Chasseur in Africa; the Amie du Drapeau, who was adored by everyone, from Chefs de Bataillons to fantassins, and toasted by every drinker, from Algiers to Oran, in the Champagne of Messieurs les Generaux as in the Cric of the Loustics round a camp-fire!
The heavy kind were bent by means of arrangements of pulleys, the windlass, or a kind of lifting jack called the Cranequin or Cric. The lighter forms were bent by an attached lever called the Goat's Foot. Specimens of these are in the case, as also two bowstaves from the wreck of the Mary Rose, 1545, and some leaden sling bullets from the battle field of Marathon.
"So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." After a pause, Gavroche added: "I shall have a ladder for these children." Montparnasse burst out laughing:
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