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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Leave me, leave me, mother." During my time I had to live thus with three different convicts. I slept on a wooden bench; I had to work extraordinarily hard to earn a little mattress called a serpentin. Each dormitory contains eight hundred men. Each bed, called a tolard, holds twenty-four men, chained in couples.
You said that you could not tell me all about him without them?" "Yes, I have them." "It is your turn to speak; I am listening like a child when his mother begins the tale of Le Grand Serpentin Vert." "I count the young man in question in that group of our acquaintances which we are wont to style our friends.
The serpentin about her head is the "feather in her cap" of the Belgian maiden on Carnival Day. Coming suddenly round the corner I almost ran into a girl. Her back was towards me. It was a quiet street. She had half a dozen of these serpentins. Hurriedly, with trembling hands, she was twisting them round and round her own head. I looked at her as I passed. She flushed scarlet.
They had also borrowed a couple of brooms. Ridiculous little objects they looked, the tiny head of each showing above the great white shroud as gravely they walked, the one behind the other, sweeping the mud into the gutter. They also were of the Carnival, playing at being scavengers. Another quaint sight I witnessed. The "serpentin" is a feature of the Belgian Carnival.
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