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It was a droll spectacle; the old buildings and all the figures illuminated by the red light of the straw fires, which flickered, and sparkled, and blazed up! As to Gringalet, the first thing he did, once at liberty, was to place the little golden fly in a paper box; and he kept repeating, during his triumph, 'Little golden gnat, I did well to hinder the spiders from eating you, for "
Not the least convinced of l'Encuerado's kind intentions towards him, Gringalet seemed to bear malice towards the Indian, and for three days was very shy of coming near him. After this scene the preparations for dinner occupied our attention. If our guns had been more successful, we should have had fat to fry our fish in.
"This is my plan: Pique-Vinaigre has promised to relate to us to-day, after dinner, his story of Gringalet and Cut-in-half. It rains, we will all retire here, and the beggar will come and take his seat in the corner, in his usual place. We will give some sous to Pique-Vinaigre to make him commence his story. It will be the dinner hour.
"Just so," said the Cripple, who accompanied the keeper, and remained standing near the door, watching him. "I told you, then," said Pique-Vinaigre, "that Gringalet, all the time of his triumph, said to himself, 'Little gnat, I have " "Gargousse!" cried the cripple. "Mine!
Janet and Verdet, perched on the back of a chair, stammered the names of Hortense and Emile, as well as could be hoped. The two children became pale with pleasure and surprise. Just at this moment, Master Job, introduced by Gringalet, came and sat down on the carpet, and allowed the children to caress him. It was delightful to sit down to table surrounded by all the beings dearest to my heart.
"This snake is quite harmless, and I should never touch one without taking papa's advice, even if it exactly resembled this." "And you didn't repeat any words?" "No; papa had it in his hands, and it coiled round his arm." "I understand, then," murmured the Indian; "it is the serpent that is charmed." Gringalet, quite as mistrustful as l'Encuerado, ran off directly he saw the reptile move.
'Hum! said the Alderman, looking at him out of the corner of his eye, 'is this really true, what you tell me? If you wish to teach a trick to your ape, why did you fasten him to Gringalet? 'Because Gringalet must also know it.
Just at this moment, Gringalet saw come in at the window one of those small flies, green and gold, which are so common; one would have called it a spark of fire which flew, and just at the moment Cut-in-half gave the razor to Gargousse, the golden gnat flew straight into the eye of the wicked wretch.
I proposed to Sumichrast to regain as soon as we could the mountain path. "Let us keep on one day more," said my friend; "we have still four bottles of water left, and even if we give Lucien and Gringalet the largest share, it will serve us for another twenty-four hours." The next day, just as we were starting, l'Encuerado killed a hocco.
Oh! yes, but it was nothing as yet. Up to this time, Gringalet would have escaped with a few scratches, lashes, and horrible fear.
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