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From their replies, the Emperor suspected that it was ratafia; but he would not have sworn to it. That day Rouget and his men had too many pains in their sides to go a-fishing. Moreover, they knew that La Queue had gone out without success that morning, and they talked of waiting until the next day before visiting their jambins.
And he was relaxing his fishing when he noticed another cask at his right, this one very small, and which stood on end, turning on itself like a top. That was the last straw for the nets and the jambins. No one even spoke of them any longer. The "Zéphir" gave chase to the little barrel, which was caught very easily. During this time a similar adventure overtook the "Baleine."
And as soon as the "Zéphir" had reached the open sea, La Queue cast his nets. After that he went to visit his "jambins." The jambins are a kind of elongated eel-pot in which they catch more, especially lobsters and red garnet. But in spite of the calm sea, he did well to visit his jambins one by one.
"Then," asked Tupain, sullenly, "are we going to draw out the jambins?" "Yes, right away; there is no hurry!" replied La Queue. He also gazed lovingly at the barrel. He felt his limbs melt with longing to go in at once and taste it. The fish bored him. "Bah!" said he at the end of a silence. "Let's go back, for it's late. We will return to-morrow."
It's yellow, this one it ought to be great." Then in accents of despair: "Let's go and see the jambins; there may very possibly be lobsters in them." And the "Baleine" went on heavily to the left, steering toward the point. In the "Zëphir," La Queue had to get in a passion in order to hold Tupain and Brisemotte from the cask.
After Rouget had already visited five jambins completely empty, Delphin, always on the watch, cried out that he saw something. But it did not have the appearance of a cask, it was too long. "It's a beam," said Fouasse. Rouget let fall his sixth jambin without drawing it out of the water. "Let's go and see, all the same," said he.
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