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"Kirikikiou!" At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly of the elephant: "Yes!" Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse.
As for his cry of Kirikikiou, that was, doubtless, what the child had meant, when he said: "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended.
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