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Updated: May 17, 2025
'And when under the late Field Marshal Münich during the campaign, as well as little Caroline' Eh! eh! bruder! So he still remembers our old pranks? 'Now for business. I send you my rogue' Hum! 'Hold him with gloves of porcupine-skin' What does that mean 'gloves of porcupine-skin? It must be a Russian proverb. "What does it mean, 'hold with gloves of porcupine-skin?" resumed he, turning to me.
"It means," I answered him, with the most innocent face in the world, "to treat someone kindly, not too strictly, to leave him plenty of liberty; that is what holding with gloves of porcupine-skin means." "Humph! I understand." "'And not give him any liberty' No; it seems that porcupine-skin gloves means something quite different. Enclosed is his commission' Where is it then? Ah! here it is!
The speech ended, we all ate heartily of the bear's flesh; and even the head itself, after remaining three days on the scaffold, was put into the kettle. The fat of our bear was melted down, and the oil filled six porcupine-skin bags.
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