The young little grebes are too large to ride their parent's back

Persuade to ride on the back

A pair of Little Grebes interrupted brooding of eggs and was cautious about a Gray Heron coming close to their nest

NEWS 18: All the Parisian women who own dogs are following the example given to them by Madam de Saint Frémont and are coming to withdraw their subscription to the Constitutionnel

SMALL-SCALE SPECULATORS 3: －And to think that we're forbidden from going in there to do our little bits of business too... those men! no respect at all for the fair sex!..

The Tombstone that has Played Too Much is Hastily Returned to Original Position

NEWS 303: No longer knowing how to use their spare time, the three friends of peace are reduced to making war between themselves

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 1: A VISIT TO THE SALON. To be sure, all sculptors are smutty!..

MONOMANIACS 8: THE COFFEE-LOVER: The half-cup easily becomes second nature; one finds a number of people who, like the lover above, have made themselves an immutable law to take their coffee, in order to facilitate digestion, even though their means do not allow them to dine. It is agreed that existence would be too bitter without chicory

MONOMANIACS 8: THE COFFEE-LOVER: The half-cup easily becomes second nature; one finds a number of people who, like the lover above, have made themselves an immutable law to take their coffee, in order to facilitate digestion, even though their means do not allow them to dine. It is agreed that existence would be too bitter without chicory

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

PASTORALS 10: The danger of wanting to visit too wild spot

Double Faces 1: The Uncle-The Nephew: [On the left of the page, vertically]: (The Nephew, aloud) I've been given a little too much, that's bad －(The Uncle, aside) I'll inherit from my nephew, how strange! [On the right of the page,vertically]: (The Uncle, aloud) I'm not well, my friend. －(The Nephew, aside)Things are going well, I'm going to inherit from him

Album des Charges du Jour: THE EMPEROR MOROCCO CONSULTING THE CELEBRATED SORCERER DESBAROLLES. －Here is a little line which indicates to me that you are destined to receive a great drubbing!..

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 6: Inconvenient to visit without caution a mezzanine room where the ceiling is a little too low

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 50: Inconvenient to be too sentimental and to like going for walks by moonlight

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 48: －They said to the Government that it wasn't progressing, so naturally it got the idea of taking all the railways!... －That's wanting to go too fast!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 38: －They are young turtle-doves... that's how we used to be in former times, missis Duruflé..

IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..

IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 63: THE NEIGHBOURS BEFORE THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Well, I won the case all the same, and you won't be so stuck-up now, Mrs. Pimbèche... because the Justice of the Peace has sentenced you to go back to your house which backs on to mine!..

IN CHINA 8: A Chinese warrior patrol －having taken too literally the order given them to scout out... [the enemy's movement...]

THRILLS OF THE HUNT 13: －It's no use their having told me their guns are charged only with small shot, it's no less deeply upsetting to have my head aimed at like this for the next three hours!... I tremble in case they dream they meet a rabbit!..

[NEWS] 185: Attached through their grandeur to the bank of the Seine, the ministers Parrieu and Rouher consoled themselves at not being able to pass the holidays in their mountains by dancing a bourrée from their birthplace, behind the closed doors of one of the rooms in the Ministry of Justice

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 62: THE DAQY WHEN YOU HAVE TO DISPLAY GALLANTRY: －How much is that big bouquet?... －Ten francs －Good God!... and this little here? －Fifteen francs －Damnation!..