Eurasian Wigeons swim upstream in the river, and eat drifting leaves of waterweeds

NEWS 186: －And that's how you give yourself sprains in the back!.....

THE BATHERS －by H. DAUMIER: A FAMILY GROUP. －No, I don't want to learn to swim in the water!... as much as you'ld like at home, papa, but not in the water, not in the water!..

Parisian Emotions 6: Thank you. Go and dine in the town, my boy

PARISIAN SKETCHES 21: SCENE OF HORSEFLESH-EATING. － True indeed... there's Sir eating his old horse... I only hope that one day he doesn't get the idea of sitting down to eat his old maid!..

The Life of the Virgin in Emblems: A Lioness and a Cub Being Chased by a Hunter

GREAT AND TERRIBLE CRUSADE UNDERTAKEN BY THE BURGRAVES AGAINST THE JOURNALISTS

GREAT AND TERRIBLE CRUSADE UNDERTAKEN BY THE BURGRAVES AGAINST THE JOURNALISTS

Conjugal Manners 29: This is the moment (past midnight) when calm and peace truly reign in happy households. Better late than never

Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

Parisian Freebooters 12: The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

Review of Caricature 26: A wine marchant thwarted in his bussiness I say...Father Madzinguin...your campeachy wood [logwood] doesn't stop them from emptying youe barrels in the stream...they're right to say that water always returns to the river!..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 17: THE PENAL CODE. The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors

JOURNEY TO CHINA 10: CHINESE PROBITY. The unfortunate man who commits a little failing and gives 80 per cent to his creditors is ruined, dishonoured, lost, and sees all his careers close before him... if he would like to be well thought of, well received in the world, there is only one way... that is to begin again upon a bigger scale and to give away nothing at all

NEWS 160: MAC-ADAM AND BINEAU IN HELL. As the result of a terrible, but deserved, punishment, they are condemned to repave the Champs-Elysées

NEWS 552: OPENING OF THE HUNTING SEASON. THE POSE IN THE RAILWAY STATION. A Parisian firmly resolved this year to destroy all the hares infesting the plain of St. Denis..., with terrible new shot from Devismes[sic]

NEWS 59: THE INCONVENIENCE OF DINING WITH A SCHOLAR WHO LIKES MAKING CHEMISTRY AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS. － Well now, without your wuestioning it, I have just make you all eat fritillary... I'm curious to know positively if it's a safe food able to replace the potato or if it's poison

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 10: 5 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON: Mr Coquelet you're an unsociable being, d'you understand with your dog; that's twice when I've had 149, he jumps on the table and jumbles it all up. Your dog's and accomplice!... and you're an old cheat

Parliamentary Scenes 7: The elector’s family We arrived in Paris just this morning and straight away said to ourselves: Let's find our Deputy, he’ll show us the interior of the Pantheon, and of the Invalides, and of the Royal Palace, and of the Well of Grenelle..

Parliamentary Scenes 7: The elector’s family We arrived in Paris just this morning and straight away said to ourselves: Let's find our Deputy, he’ll show us the interior of the Pantheon, and of the Invalides, and of the Royal Palace, and of the Well of Grenelle..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 7: CHINESE MARRIAGE. The angler's skill in setting his lines, the hunter's artfulness in taking game, the horse-dealer's tricks to hide the redhibitory defects of his horse, nothing is comparable to the skill, the artfulness, the trick which a mother deploys in order to marry her daughter... the poor Chinese men mistrust the lures, of honey and of glue, to no avail, someone always falls into the maternal snare

Caricaturana 17: We're shareholders of the agricultural and arch-fib institute of Coëtbo, of Pysigno-trap, formerly the sanitary society of Mors-Lycos, of the warranty paper for thieves, of the Hoax, a very political newspaper, and of a group of other philanthropic operations; we've just received our dividends and we're using them to eat on a pleasure trip... waiter, another sou's worth of cheese!