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Updated: May 7, 2025
Two or three times, in open court, the old chief judge, Ladevese, had said, in alluding to him: "He is a character!" Lastly, the masses were for Tartarin.
On hearing their leader speak in this way, all the sportsmen felt tears well up, and some were stung with remorse, to wit, Chief Judge Ladevese and the chemist Bezuquet. The railway employees blubbered in the corners, whilst the outer public squinted through the bars and bellowed: "Long live Tartarin!" At length the bell rang. A dull rumble was heard, and a piercing whistle shook the vault.
Behind him marched the brave Commandant Bravida, Ladevese the Chief Judge, Costecalde the gunsmith next, and then all the sportsmen who pop at caps, preceding the hand-carts and the rag, tag, and bobtail. Before the station the station-master awaited them, an old African veteran of 1830, who shook Tartarin's hand many times with fervency.
Chief Judge Ladevese, who willingly paid court in his leisure hours to the native Muse, composed in local dialect a song which won much success. It told of a sportsman called "Master Gervais," whose dreaded rifle was bound to exterminate all the lions in Africa to the very last. Unluckily, this terrible gun was of a strange kind: "though loaded daily, it never went off."
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