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Updated: May 13, 2025
Dressed in his speckled black swallow-tail coat, with his long pen in his mouth and his shirt-bosom faultlessly white, the woodpecker works like some Balzac in his garret, making the tree-top lively as he spars with his fellow-Bohemians; and being sure himself of a tree, and clinging to it with both tail and talons, he esteems everything else that lives upon it to be an insect at which he may run his bill or spit his tongue that tongue which is rooted in the brain itself.
The most outré of Phil's hirsute and carelessly garbed fellow-Bohemians somehow or other seemed neither vulgar nor ill at ease. They evidently felt at home, and admired faithfully and with complete unison the feminine members of their friend's family; and their readiness to catch at the bright or grotesque side of any situation evinced itself in a manner worthy of imitation.
His father took no notice of the childish threat, and Gambetta actually plucked out one of his own eyes. In 1868 he was a young lawyer in Paris; but his eloquence and ability were known only at the Café Procope to a circle of admiring fellow-Bohemians.
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