A black-crowned night heron utilizing a swimming penguin as a means of feeding

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 2: －Yes, Madam, I am completely devoted to our August Prince, and by means of a few miserable hundreds of thousands of francs will undertake to re-establish him on the throne. －What are your means? －My means! I am full of means! I have friends, newspapers, and if the entire Macaire family declares itself for him, never could a Prince raise a more innumerable army!..

La Tauromaquia [The Bullfight]: The Moors settled in Spain, giving up the superstitions of the Koran, adopted this art of hunting, and spear a bull in the open

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 1: THE SELLER OF SECURITY [WATCH] CHAINS: The security [watch] chain is so called because it is a secure means of knowing that the ninny who buys it owns a watch. Accomplices stationed in the vicinity are not slow to turn this sign to a profit. Bertrand sold the chain, Macaire deals with the watch

Bathers 7: You see, master, you are... of a strength

Bathers 7: You see, master, you are... of a strength

PEOPLE OF THE LAW 32: －Let them speak a little ill of you... let them say it... in just a moment I myself will insult your adversary's whole family!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 56: A PAYMENT OF DIVIDEND: －Excuse me!... they're announcing in all the newspapers that the Capricorn insurance company is making arrangements to pay out a first dividend, and they don't warn that the dividend's of thirty sous per share!... then take a hackney cab; I haven't even got the means to tip my coachman!..

金属を持出す泥棒が直ぐ判る : ラヂオ仕掛の門番さん : 微妙な音響の変化を利用して

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 5: 11 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING: Mr. Coquelet wishing to offer a bouquet of violets to Miss Palissandre, reproaches himself for his prodigality; and washing his handkerchief with his own hands, clears his conscience by means of this economy

Ancient History 31: The fall of Icarus. As the sun roasted his wings, / His old scoundrel of a father, inventor of this contrivance, / Said, watching him fall through the eternal vaults: / Assuredly, this is no good (A poet who travels only by carriage)

NEWS 45: ABDUCTION OF A GIRL-SPIRIT OF THE AIR. － Come, come, Mr. Godard, I'm frozen, let me into the gondola... － That's impossible, since we'll be seen by Paris... － But I've got a frightful head-cold!... － All I can promise is to wipe your nose, as soon as we get into a cloud!..

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 5: SETTING THE BILL. －Mister de Macaire, allow me to tell you that your bill astonishes me! For a spy to keep the prince up to date with the Newspapers 120,000 f For a riot which did not take place 35,000 Honorariums for some people, supporters of the Prince 370,000 15 525,000 15 －Why your Grace, does that surprises you, but do you therefore think you can regain a throne as easily as you lose it? a mistake, your Grace, a mistake, you are not abreast of the times

THRILLS OF THE HUNT 1: －I think I've got a hare in its form... what luck!... －Wait[,]... we're going to see if you've got a hunting permit..., my good fellow!..

NEWS 1: THE RUSSIAN QUESTION DEALT WITH ON A COUCH － Yes mister Coquardeau, the ambition of the Russian Colossus becomes insatiable... it is already not enough for him to have blown up the Black Sea and to have smashed all the seaports in the Levant, now today the same Colossus makes ready to seize the Dardanelles... I am of a mind to suffer none of it mister Coquardeau!

Ancient History 39: Leander. Each night, clad in little, but in galant fashion, / And counting upon his arms of iron, / He crossed an arm of sea / To throw himself into those of his lover (Byron, very mixed poems)

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

PASTORALS 40: －Needless to say, I've got to cross this devil of a small wood to get home... I'm angry at having stayed so late at neighbour Rigolard's so as to make a hundred at piquet... if I'd thought I'd have made only half a hundred

MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS [2]: SECOND MEETING: An American orator proves in an irrefutable manner that the only means of pacifying humankind is to force all men to wear, like him, a green hat, which they should never remove except in the evenings, when going to bed. No one even dared to contest this opinion

MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS [2]: SECOND MEETING: An American orator proves in an irrefutable manner that the only means of pacifying humankind is to force all men to wear, like him, a green hat, which they should never remove except in the evenings, when going to bed. No one even dared to contest this opinion

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

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

THE TEMPTATION OF THE NEW St. ANTHONY: In that particular time, a great and fat sinner named Véron felt himself touched by grace: having reflected that the Press was a priesthood, he became a hermit and retired to a wild place in the midst of the steepest mountains of Montmartre. There, he spent his days and nights in prayer, and as a means of mortification, imposed upon himself as a penitence the continual re-reading of the list of subscribers to the Constitutionnel. －For his only food, Véron took at long intervals a light fragment of Regnauld pâté. －The Devil, irritated by this edifying yet unexpected conversion employed different strategies to make St. Véron succumb to his temptations, but our noble coenobite knew how to resist those things which until recently had held so many charms for him: Satan, who had taken the form of the Constitutionnel in order come in person to tempt St. Véron, returned to the road for Paris, furious. －The anchorite of Montmartre has, since this time, been placed in the rank of the greatest saints which Parisian journalism honours, and is especially supplicated by the unfortunates who have a head cold

NEWS 197: HOLDERS OF SHARES IN CALIFORNIA. －Yesterday I poured in five thousand francs as the price of a thousand shares in the Californian Yellow Water-Lily Company... we've the cultivation of the entire left bank of the Sacramento... I think I've done good business... and the owner is as convinced as I am... －I prefer the Golden Carrot Company, I've put all the money I have in it

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!