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Title: Madame Pantalon / Charles Paul de Kock ; with a general introduction by Jules Claretie ; translated into English by Edith Mary Norris.
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Kock, Charles Paul de
Subjects: French Literature
Publisher: The Frederick J. Quinby Company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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ent one way, the other another way.
Presently they heard shots from a gun and ran
off uttering loud cries, the gunshots frightened
them. The animal they were hunting passed quite
near them. Then when they tried to run fast one
caught herself in the brambles and fell, another
tried to climb a tree ; but the shots came nearer,
then there were moans and groans.
Olympiade came along holding her chin, she
had received a buckshot in her face, while Madame
Dutonneau had received one in another place;
Madame Flambart had barked her nose on the
branch of an oak, but Cesarine sounded a fanfare
and from all sides they heard,—
" He is killed!"
" he is killed!"
" We must go and see the wild boar!"
It was the lady called Pantalon who killed it.
Some peasants and children who had been at-
tracted to the wood by the sound of the horn
hastened to the place where the animal which had
been killed was lying, and beside which Madame
Pantalon was still standing as she sounded a blast.
Everyone tried to get nearest to the dead beast;
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CHARLES PAUL DE KOCK 287

but soon shouts of laughter arose and the villagers
shouted,—
" That a wild boar !"
" I dare say ! it's a pig."
"Why, yes, wait— I recognize it because he was
such a fine one, it's Matthieu-Jerome's fat porker.
He sold it a fortnight ago to a gentleman from
Paris."
" The latter didn't take care of it, I suppose;"
" he must have lost it on the way."
"Yes, yes, it is Matthieu-Jerome's pig!"
" Oh, what a good joke !"
" Yes, I should say so ! But how came it to be
said that a wild boar was about here. This is not
the place for one."
Cesarine said nothing, but she heard all this,
looked at the animal she had killed out of the
corner of her eye, and was not long in convincing
herself that the peasants had spoken correctly.
The so-called wild boar was, in fact, nothing but
a very fat pig. She told the peasants to make a
kind of handbarrow out of the branches, and to
carry the spoils of the chase to the château. Later
she again sounded her instrument to rally the
hunters, or huntresses if you like that better ; as
or me I like neither one nor the other.

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