SKETCHES OF SUMMER 4: A practical joke from which... he who makes it never tires

MUSICAL SKETCHES 3: AT THE CHAMPS-ELYSEES. It has never been known whether it is the music which makes the beer go down, or the beer which makes one swallow the music

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 4: Joyfully going down the river of life

Los Caprichos: Who would believe it !

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 3: An interesting and refreshing read

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 8: A DIRECTOR OF NO MATTER WHICH THEATRE. －Scoundrel of a thermometer... it's still rising!..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 3: －I would really like to know what sort of joker [it was] who was the first to say that man was the king of creation

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 15: －Look here, pet..., don't provoke the sea like that..., it might suddenly become malicious and we won't have time to save ourselves!..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 4: THE SEAFARERS' HOTEL. He who says hotel-keeper －in China－ and above all in a seaport, says patent thief... if you bring to his notice that he counts dinners that you have not ordered －errands that you have not had [him] make －waiters who have not served you －expenses for transporting luggage for which you have paid, he replies graciously: Suh, we always count that, always... that is the Chinese habit!... Editer's note: This habit also exists in certain French sea ports

JOURNEY TO CHINA 2: THE PASSPORT. The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year

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

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

MONOMANIACS 4: THE AMATEUR GUITARIST: Defying the immense yawn / Wich he elicits by singing his verses / He will sing a ballad / About the remnants of the universe..

SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE 4: THE-STAGE-MANAGER. － You play kings ineffectually, I'm going to hit you with a fine of not less than one franc fifty, for having missed your entry

NEWS 4: This shows you a great battle which one may believe to be commanded by General Crunch Beet! It will not enter the historical Museum of Versailles and should serve as a pendant to the Battles of Cannes

SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 5: －Look here the sparrow was perching in that tree, it's very easy to shoot. －Yes, but if I kill it, we'll no longer have the opportunity to hunt tomorrow... it's the last one in our garden

NEWS 110: －Great Prince Muley, son of Muley, do you deign to place yourself in the shade beneath this object... the Englishman who had the kindness to make over this object to me for a hundred gold pieces told me that it was of excellent use in all the storms of life... －Let me be... it's useless... the day when the French took away my parasol, I caught sunstroke from which I shall never recover!..

Affectation 8: (He reads a letter) A meeting, it could be from that little Mrs. Giraud!... yes... but perhaps it's from her husband who wants to nab me and give me a thrashing

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!..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 28: －Well! aren't you going to get dressed?... －Me... I'm going to spend my whole life like this, in my bathing costume... out of the water... －Even in winter?... －Oh! in winter... I'll put on my hat

French Types 11: The Restaurant owner: This Gentleman who wipes the tables, arranges the stools, greets everyone and gravely walks about with a serviette in his hand, he is the master of the establishment. He has from Fifteen to Fifty thousand pounds revenue... How much has Châteaubriant ?..

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 4: FLORA AND ZEPHYR (DE LA MEURTHE.): Lightly he balances himself / On a foot barely skimming the water's surface:/ Flora who admires him in silence / Says to herself. / Ah! God damn it all, how beautiful he is! (Translated from Anacreon by Ratapoil, retired police colonel, member of Châlons sur Marne society of literature and of the society of the Tenth-of-December in Paris)

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 30: －Oh my dear, when you've got a dog you should never have a husband!... only yesterday mine had a thing about refusing a chiken wing to Mimire, he only wanted give him a leg!... －There need to be men who're fierce!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 30: －Oh my dear, when you've got a dog you should never have a husband!... only yesterday mine had a thing about refusing a chiken wing to Mimire, he only wanted give him a leg!... －There need to be men who're fierce!..