For Haiku Poems in Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province "The hot sun continues to glare/ but, lo!, there is a feel of cool autumn wind in the air!"

For Haiku Poems in Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province "How cool the crescent moon/ faint above the black peak of Mt. Haguro!"

For Haiku Poems in Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province "The River Mogami/ has drowned the hot, summer sun/ into the sea!"

For Haiku Poems in Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province "A lady's eyebrow brush/ came to mind when I saw/ safflowers in bloom."

For Haiku Poems in Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province "Where in Kasashima?/ here I am bogged down/ in the road muddy with June rain!"

For Haiku Poems in Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province "Gathering all the rains of June/ how swiftly the Mogami flows!"

For Haiku Poems in Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province "They planted/ an entire paddy/ ere I moved from the willow tree!"

For Haiku Poems in Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province "In Kisakata's rain/ mimosas droop/ like fair Hsi-shih/ who languished with love."

For Haiku Poems in Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province "Over the wild ocean/ all the way to Sado Island/ streaks the Milky Way!"

For Haiku Poems in Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province "Each wave that comes and retreats/ leaves a trail of tiny shells and petals of bush clover."

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 86: A DECLARATION, IN FULL PUBLIC: －I lo lo lo lo ve you!... －I lo lo lo lo ve you!... (This tender avowal having been made in a flat key, the husband is unable to repeat it)

NEWS 44: WATER FROM THE WELL OF GRENELLE: －Certainly this hot water is very bad to drink. －Yes, but there are many small insects in it!

NEWS 44: WATER FROM THE WELL OF GRENELLE: －Certainly this hot water is very bad to drink. －Yes, but there are many small insects in it!

NEWS 54: － They're right to leave that tower there standing... you'd have to go up in a balloon to demolish it!..

NEWS 24: A RECONCILIATION (A scene from high comedy): －I embrace you, but still hold a grudge against you! － I press you to my heart, but you’ll pay for it!

NEWS 24: A RECONCILIATION (A scene from high comedy): －I embrace you, but still hold a grudge against you! － I press you to my heart, but you’ll pay for it!

IN CHINA 21: To think that there is what the French call Chinese!..

NEWS 194: To a known air: －Oh! Richard, oh! my king, the universe abandons you, On the earth there is thus only you interested in your person

Strangers in Paris 3: What is called dining in a restaurant: －Waiter!...I've been in your establishment for an hour and a quarter without having a chair...and you've still only given the tooth-picks to my wife who's dying of hunger... you'll make me lose my normal posture, and I'll end up with my feet in the dish... do you understand, waiter! －There now, Sir... there there now, there there!!!

Recently there was a crowd at La Conciergerie

NEWS 33: A MORNING VISIT TO THE ÉLYSÉE: －But Mister Véron, you leave only one sub-prefecture at my disposal!

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 9: Come to play in the field, /A roguish urchin said to him; / Barrot, from good humour / Does not suspect until too late! / In vain he strives, / But once you have allowed yourself to be deceived / There, as elsewhere, a lost position, / Is difficult to regain! Moral stanzas By General d'Hautpoul. (cultivating the Muses in secret.)

THE EXHIBITION OF ANIMALS 3: － Look here, there are cows with a body but no legs!... － Another time they'll succeed in producing animals with legs byt no body!..

PARISIANS TYPES 29: Discomfort in talking to people who have a mania for putting thier story into action. －Yes dear Sir, do you think that the rrrrascal was allowed to laugh in my face. You know I won't stand for that. So, I punched him... there, like that, do you see, and I shook you... there, like that... vigorously

Sketch Taken by Daumier at the Salon 1(but numbered: “2”) : －This year yet more Venuses... always Venuses!... as if there were women made like that!..