A tree frog chirping back in response to the same species' chirps streaming from a cell phone

MUSICAL SKETCHES 13: A music-loving family beginning to rehearse from the morning the great piece which it will sing in the evening at the concert given at Mr. Coquardeau's

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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

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PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 7: Below the upper vignette: Pierre Leroux daring to address the demi-god Barrot; Below the lower vignette: Pierre Leroux, having set forth to the tribune his social doctriness, [that are] no less tangled than his hair, receives a hand-shakes from his friends, who, in a fashion, appear to have understood them

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

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Caricaturana 38: Lively! Lively! Bertrand, got to push the merchandise onto the market, beat the big drum, make a show, attract the sucker's attention! Lively! Lively! We'll attack ourselves in the newspapers, write to ourselves, reply to ourselves, answer ourselves, insult ourselves, and above all, advertise ourselves... －do you think the public won't have the key to these shams? －Leave off, everybody has the key to them except the public

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 17: Man in naluratibus [sic]. Philosophy, my dear Bertrand, explains very well our two characters from our physiques... you are weakness, I am strength... to you is cunning, to me courage... you are the ivy and I the oak, without me the slightest breeze from the police will plunge you into a torrent of misfortune... do not leave me and inscribe upon your arms: I die or I cling

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 17: Man in naluratibus [sic]. Philosophy, my dear Bertrand, explains very well our two characters from our physiques... you are weakness, I am strength... to you is cunning, to me courage... you are the ivy and I the oak, without me the slightest breeze from the police will plunge you into a torrent of misfortune... do not leave me and inscribe upon your arms: I die or I cling

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MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

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MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

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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!

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MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

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MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

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Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

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Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

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Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

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Caricaturana 92: Sir, I despise the charlatanism of the poster, I despise the Puffs of the advertisement, I abhor everything which smells of the charalatan, the tumbler, the rope-dancer, and I limit myself to producing with all naivete and foolishness my merchandise. Read my catalogue! Scent of love, esteem and friendship, in phials from the Middle-Ages... Extract of the smile of infancy －Perfume of Adolphe's first steps－ Water of the peoples' alliance, for the handkerchief, with Beranger's song. Perfume of General Foy, a scent to strengthen the brain's fibre and to remind the French of their liberties and rights guaranteed by the constitutional charter. Surrounded by an oration given upon the tomb of the immortal deputy by one of his honourable colleagues. You see, it's impossible to be more simple

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