SCENES I, IL, AND III

In a little Country town there lived à vetel retired merchant named Caboussat, merchant had a daughtetogether, and one d

rinary surgeon and also a

The surgeon had a 80n and the named Blanche.

e em in. But he had just

broken it, he garden near an apricot-

tree.

on went to see a cow which belonged to the merchant, But his visit

was useless, for the cow had swallowed a bit of a glass decanter and had died from it.

past, and, one Sunday, which he gave to the children.

The veterinary surgeon, who was a had got even with the other canhese balloons attracted h

ail, where-

man, almost a scholar, for h in his hand,

nt of the participles, to learn it,

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last deputy. But some of the people thought him proud, and haë : grudge against him for it. He certainly asked the voters about th :

wives, but he forgot to admire their cabbages. When the surgeon pointed out to him that the people held that this would be his duty as president of the agricultural society, he at once put on his new hat and started out to ask the peasantry for some of their cabbage seed.