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Updated: June 13, 2025
What did Cut-in-half do to punish Gringalet for wishing to run away? That you shall know directly; in the mean time, he caught the child, shut him up in the garret, saying to him, 'To-morrow morning, when all your comrades are gone, I will take hold of you, and you shall see what I do to those who wish to run away from here. "I leave you to imagine what a horrible night Gringalet passed.
What does my lovely ape do when he sees his master stretched on his back, immovable as a fried carp, and much at his ease? He sprung upon him, crouched on his breast, with one of his paws stretched the skin of his throat, and with the other click! he cut his windpipe in a moment, exactly as Cut-in-half had shown him how to operate on Gringalet." "Bravo!" "Well done!" "Long live Gargousse!"
"Among the children to whom Cut-in-half distributed his beasts," resumed Pique-Vinaigre, "there was a poor little devil nicknamed Gringalet. Without father or mother, without sister or brother, without a home, he found himself alone all alone in the world, where he never asked to come, and whence he could have gone, without anybody caring at all about it.
Unfortunately, Cut-in-half had seen him; he caught him by the throat, and carried him back to the garret; this time Gringalet, thinking of what he had to expect, shuddered from head to foot, for he was not at the end of his troubles. Speaking of the troubles of Gringalet, it is necessary that I should tell you of Gargousse, the favorite ape.
You shall not knock me down; and if you do not take yourself off from this, or if you return, I Flip flap! went the Alderman, interrupting Cut-in-half by a duet of blows enough to silence a rhinoceros: 'There is what you get for answering to the Alderman of Little Poland." "Two blows! it was too little," said Blue Cap; "in his place, I should have given him a bigger dose."
Cut-in-half opened the trap and called the roll, in order to give each one his piece of bread; all descended the ladder, and Gringalet, more dead than alive, crouching in a corner of the garret, moved no more than it did; he saw his companions going off one after the other; he would have given anything to do as they did. Finally, they were all gone.
"Oh! you sanguinary ape," cried Blue Cap. "If I had hold of you by the tail, I would spin you round like a mill just like a sling, and I would crack your conk on the pavement." "Rascally ape! he was as wicked as a man!" "There are no men so wicked as that!" "Not so wicked?" answered Pique-Vinaigre. "You forget old Cut-in-half! There was an idea!"
The moment the Alderman had turned on his heels, Cut-in-half showed the staircase to his victim, and ordered him to mount at once to his garret; the child did not allow him to say it twice, but went, very much alarmed. "'Oh, Lord! I am lost, he cried, throwing himself upon the straw beside his turtle, and weeping bitterly.
Now this is what Cut-in-half did: to make the ape furious against the child, who, panting and out of breath, was more dead than alive, he took Gringalet by the hair, pretending to belabor him with blows, and then he handed him back to Gargousse, crying, 'Speak to him, speak to him! and then he showed him a piece of sheep's heart, as much as to say to him, 'This shall be your reward! Oh! then, my friends, truly it was a dreadful sight.
"Or as a man who would have attacked Cut-in-half, to drag Gringalet from his claws," added Barbillon, also much interested. "As you say," replied Pique-Yinaigre. "Accordingly, after these doings, Gringalet did not feel so very unfortunate. He who never laughed, smiled, looked wise, put on his cap sideways, when he had a cap, and sung the Marseillaise with a trumpet air.
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