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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Thank you. I'll go and tell mama. If you'll stand beside Palikare for a minute, I'll go and tell her at once." "Sure, I'll mind him for yer. I'll ask him to teach me Greek." "And please don't let him eat that straw." Perrine went inside the caravan and told her mother what the little clown had said. "If that is so," said the sick woman, "we must not hesitate; we must go to Charonne.
"Palikare," said Perrine at last. "You have thought that also?" asked the mother. "Yes," said Perrine, "and I have been so unhappy about it, and sometimes I did not dare look at him for fear he would guess that we were going to part with him instead of taking him to Maraucourt with us. He would have been so happy there after such a long journey."
I could not see her until yesterday, as she had been out in the country." Fabry paused. Then for the first time he turned to Perrine and bowed respectfully. "I saw Palikare, mademoiselle," he said. "He is looking very well." Perrine had risen to her feet. For some moments she stood listening, dazed. Then her eyes filled with tears.
As soon as she had installed Palikare in the place that the man had pointed out to her, which was accomplished not without some jolts, despite the care which she took, Perrine climbed up into the wagon. "We've arrived at last, poor mama," she said, bending over the woman. "No more shaking, no more rolling about," said the woman weakly.
Grain-of-Salt made a sign to Perrine to follow him, and Palikare, now that he knew that he was not going into the market, trotted beside her docilely. She did not even have to pull his rope. Who was this prospective buyer? A man? A woman?
He could stay at the Guillot Field and she could send for him after they arrived at Maraucourt. Dear Palikare! How contented he would be to have a beautiful stable to live in and go out every day in the green fields. But alas! Grain-of-Salt would not give one sou over fifteen francs for the wagon. "Only fifteen francs!" she murmured. "Yes, and I am only doing that to oblige you.
Palikare, taking the offer seriously, came a step nearer and pushing out his lips to make them as thin and as long as possible, drank a good half of the glass which had been filled to the brim. "Oh la la! la la!" cried Grain-of-Salt, bursting with laughter. "Baroness! Carp! Come here!"
Besides, was not Grain-of-Salt his friend? They started thus. Palikare, still surprised, walked gravely along, led by Perrine. On through the streets they went. At first they met but few vehicles, and soon they arrived at a bridge which jutted into a large garden. "That's the Zoo," said Grain-of-Salt, "and I'm sure that they haven't got a donkey there like yours."
"Then perhaps we can sell him to the Zoo," exclaimed Perrine, thinking that in a zoological garden all the animals have to do is to walk about and be looked at. That would be very nice for dear Palikare! "An affair with the Government," said Grain-of-Salt; "better not, 'cause the Government...." From his expression it was evident that Grain-of-Salt had no faith in the Government.
Palikare had been standing quietly looking on with his big soft eyes. When he saw La Rouquerie sit down on the grass beside Perrine, he also knelt down beside them. "The old rogue, he wants a bite, too," said the woman. "May I give him a piece?" asked Perrine. "Yes, you can give him a piece or two. When we've eaten this there is more in the cart.
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