A Book Concluding With As A Wife Has A Cow : A love story by Gertrude STEIN

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 11: A DINNER AT VÉRY’S: So! I've just dined as a bachelor!... yes! but my wife entrusted me with a louis and I've got left... sixty centimes!

Video 6. A mother Japanese badger (Meles anakuma) bringing fallen leaves as nesting materials in the sett, followed by a male offspring bringing tree branches as nesting materials into the sett

PARISIANS TYPES 26: Yes, Sir, your respectable air encourages me: you see in me a first tenor who has lost his DO, but who still has his wife. With eighteen children, and nothing more! nooo... thing mmmm... ore; lend me fifteen pounds or so! －I've only got a forty franc piece on me! －I'll give it back to you!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 54: －Well, there's my wife going off... high speed... twelve leagues an hour... what a fine invention steam is!..

THESE GOOD PARISIANS 13: THE PARISIAN － Tell me, worthy fellow, what do you do with all your cows when they become old and no longer give milk?... THE COW-HERD － Look here,... the tomfoolery.. you make beef out of them!..

NEWS 105: THE REJUVENATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONEL [sic] FOLLOWING THE REJUVENATION OF AESON: I read in Mr. de Chompre's book that the aged Aeson was in earlier times perfectly rejuvenated by making him simmer in a stew-pot with a multitude of small spices, such as marshmallow roots, lizard, sticks of liquorice and toads... but the precise recipe of this stew has been lost... I have imagined new ingredients, but unfortunately they are devilishly expensive! I think I would have done better to preserve my old fellow by －having him stuffed by Mr. Gannat!

PARISIAN SKETCHES, － BY H. DAUMIER . ...And from her pink lips, Escaped a name sweet as a bird's song

The Blue-stockings 18: Oh my idolised Victor... a poetic idea has come to me!..

NEWS 203: Casmajou－ I think that the time has come to claim as the price for my devotion the reward of a frock-coat! Ratapoil－ Well, now, do you think my boots leave nothing to be desired in connection with the sole! (Together)(in chorus)－ Oh, the ingratitude of Governments!

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 19: A VANITY SATISFIED: －Oh! at last!... the Monitor has recorded my “very good”... naming me in full... about time, too... at least my constituents will no longer say I don't speak in the Chamber!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 40: －For three months, your grace has been posing always like that... now the portrait's no longer a likeness... it's no longer that!..

NEWS 43: Inconvenient for a Parisian aeronaut to conduct his descent in a country which is not inhabited by Scotsmen at all

TRIVIAL THINGS 3: － Come! my young friend,shake me firmly by the hand...that's good. －(aside)Oh! there, there now! "The friendship of a strong man is a flail of the Gods"

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 17: THE WORKER FOR A LABOUR EXCHANGE: Employed at fifteen sous a day, as a secret bill-poster, what a fate! They're asking for a replacement, by Jove, as are my hat and my clothes, and above all my last night's supper's asking for a replacement!

The Salon of 1842: Charmed to see himself exhibited, the original seen here takes his wife to the Salon, and places her in front of his own image, in order to rejoice in the crowd's judgment. －Look, say some, it's Chinese Commissioner Lin! －No, says others, don't you see that it's a bit of natural history! － It is, joins in a gentleman with a catalogue, it is the portrait of Mr. D..., insurance broker. －Well, with a bonce like that he needn't insure it, because no one would steal it. (His lady wife leaves, extremely flattered.)

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

Ancient History 26: The Augean stables. For a proud hero to make of himself a cleaner, / Is, for Hercules, difficult to swallow, / But as a proverb says: / One does not argue about sewers or colours (Unpublished pun by Mr. Delessert)

Where are we going, where are we going?...We are walking on a volcano, the gulf of revolutions is open beneath our footsteps...the carriage of state has been halted by the flood of all these bad passions

NEWS 41: The Union and the National Assembly trying to frighten Parisians with the help of a Cossack in the form of a baloon

Bathers 26: －Look out, Gargouillet, there's the master going by with his wife; we should wash our hair and hang the soap. －Thank you, I've just finished with it

A Book Concluding With As A Wife Has A Cow : A love story by Gertrude STEIN

More Like This