Eurasian Coots and Wigeons on a tidal flat, do they have a taste for drinking fresh water

Water-drinking behavior by Bossou chimpanzee, Guinea

JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 51: －It doesn't surprise me that women always have a taste for military uniform! －

The Good Bourgeois 3: So! What do you think of me in my new uniform...I think I ought to have a fairly stylish little look!..

The Good Bourgeois 3: So! What do you think of me in my new uniform...I think I ought to have a fairly stylish little look!..

Affectation 2: I said to myself: do they think we're from the rue des Lombards?... There's a little air about you which is not that of a confectioner at all

COSSACKS TO LAUGH AT or COSSACKS FOR A LAUGH 17: Oursikoff!... do you think this is a likeness?... －No, Sire!... －Right...... I'd have sent you to Siberia if you had recognised me... all these bad caricatures from LE CHARIVARI won't prevent my being still the most handsome man in my empire!... －Yes,Sire!.....

The Blue-stockings 13: － Sir, excuse me if I inconvenience you a little... but you understand that I’m now writing a new novel, and I need to consult a multitude of old authors!... －(The Gentleman, aside) Old authors!... Heavens, she should have consulted them while they were alive, for she must have been their contemporary!..

Childish Acts 6: －Well, what about my glass... if I don't have my glass I'll tell Mummy that you've been drinking again with that lanky fellow whom she told you not to go about with!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 36: －I wanna drink!... －But I've told you I'm a grocer!... －Yer a grocer... well! grocers have everything... give me a drink!... or else yer not a grocer!

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

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 7: ONE O'CLOCK: A walk in the Luxembourg: Go on scoundrel. gulp it down! you'll see what it's like to be thrown into the water by a r... r... r... ras... scal like you!!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 61: －What were you thinking of, Mr. Piquepruneman, to have made me a frock-coat as much [in the style] of a landlord as that... you well know that I live in the same street as citizen Proudhon!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 12: THE BAILIFF'S MAN: They call us enemies of liberty!... what are those young fellows there complaining about... they're being taken in a carriage, and they've got a page, at the back... there's a kind of one!

Caricaturana 82: Write: Sir, In reply to the letter which you did me the honour of writing, I regret to tell you that the shares of the European Society of Incombustible Boot Polish have been fully subscribed to. However, I have registered your request, and will have the honour of giving you immediate notice in the event of a new issue. I am etc. R.Macaire, Director... Print “withdraw 300,000[francs] and flood France with new shares... －What, we haven't disposed of a single share, we haven't had a single request, we haven't got a sou and you... －Bertrand! You're as thick as a plank... Do what I say and you'll see

Caricaturana 34: What the Devil! Let us respect propriety! But steward, take care with your invitations!... You are missing out all the proprieties!... Why, you have on your list a Mr. Grippardin, a disreputable man!... A Mr. Durand, whose fortune comes from I don't know where!... What the Devil! Mr.Bertrand, if I'd let you do this, you'd end up by making me keep low company

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 9: “Yesterday, in the rue St. Honoré, a respectable old man fell, struck by an attack of apoplexy, it would have been the end of him had not the celebrated Doctor Cabassol, who was by chance at his window at No. 107, hastened to fly to his aid: thanks to intelligent and prodigious help together with the most touching solicitude the sick man was promptly restored to life. Our celebrated Doctor Cabassol topping his generous behaviour wanted to receive as payment for his care only the thanks of a family which will eternally bless his name. Honour to Doctor Cabassol!” －Look here, it's you who's the respectable old man in question, yesterday you failed to fall when coming to see me, you could have injured yourself and then I could have saved you... I contrived it all a little more dramatically for the newspaper... it won't do you any harm and it'll do me a lot of good!

11. And then Suddenly the Sky Was Filled with a Huge Black Hole That Resembled the Wide-opened Jaws of a Whale Raising Its Head from the Water [from "From Nine Dreams"]

JOURNEY TO CHINA 19: CHINESE WORRIORS. All Chinese men have the right, from six to eight times a year, to carry a rifle, a cartridge-pouch, and even to wear a fur cap; then they apply themselves, more or less voluntarily to night patrols which have as their goal the maintenance of public peace. Only it happens quite often that the chief named KA-PO-RAL takes infinite trouble to prevent his warriors singing at the tops of their voices “mother GO-DI-CHON” or other Chinese ballads, and it is by waking with a start that the good citizens learn that their rest is being watched over

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

SKETCHES OF THE HUNT 5: －Well!... Are we going to continue our hunting, despite the vile weathe?... －No! absolutely not..., it's raining... the game fear the rain as much as we do..., they can't fail to come and shelter in this cottage, and we're going to bag lots 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!

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 19: Macaire inheritor-philanthropist. －You see, Bertrand, my wife is dead, my rights to the inheritance are contestable; I'll offer a third of it to the poor, on condition that they immediately advance me the rest... they'll never touch a brass farthing!... that's how I manipulate legacies!! －Well done, dear fellow! If you don't pick up the Manthyon prize, you'll have been robbed!