SKETCHES OF SUMMER 16: My regret is still not to be able to bring my wife here with me!..

LIFE'S DIFFICULT MOMENTS 3 : － For the seventh time will you give me my seat?... if not... － If not what?... － If not, I'll be obliged to go away, which would vex me greatly!

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 1: Parisian tritons, －male and female (not described by Mr. de Buffon)

WHEN YOU'RE UNLUCKY 1: －To think that I've not been able to fire a single shot since this morning!... －Oh! different from me... I've killed my dog!..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 40: －Sir, would you be kind enough to tell me when you'ld like to pay me back the five hundred francs you've been owing me for a long time... －My dear man, you're unreasonable to make such a request of me, you clearly see that I have nothing on me at this very moment..

PARISIAN SKETCHES 3: － Yes, my dear mister Coffignon, it would be difficult for me to count up the number of my conquests I've always had and today still have great success with women! － To be sure [,] as for me [,] I've only ever had mine [my woman] and I still find that it's too much!

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

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

Women Bathers 2: In the summer it’s only here... that I feel comfortable

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 6: What it suits us to call the charms of the countryside

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!..

Conjugal Manners 49: A memory of youth: －－ Here, you see our initials still haven't worn out...Oh, Sophie, it's here that I won your heart. －－ Be quiet, Théophile... what if someone were to hear us!

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 2: View of the Seine, taken not far from Asnières, during the dog-days

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 3: THE FIRST SWIMMING LESSON. －I really want to learn to swim, but not in the water, papa,... oh! not in the water!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 7: －Come to dinner, my wife dines in town: we will be fellows together. －Ah,deuce,I have a migraine! (aside) and his wife who is waiting for me at home!

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 14: My dear fellow, may I have the pleasure of your lending me 15 frcs.[francs].－Willingly, but I've only got ten. －Deuce!...deuce!... give them to me anyway, you can owe me five

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 38: The Charade: My first of my lot still keeps going... Horse...Silver...Public Road...good heaven!!!...that's not going

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 7: －Mister Prudhomme..., I'm drowning!... －Very well!... madam, I am going to collect... －My person..., oh! thank you... －No, madam..., not being able to swim at all, I am going to collect your last will and testament... I can do no more!..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 3: An interesting and refreshing read

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 9: Having had the unfortunate idea of going to take a siesta by the river bank

NEWS 89: Well now!... they no longer seem to be troubling with me at all!

SKETCHES OF THE HUNT 7: －Well!... do you intend to stay there? －Certainly not!... I was waiting so that you could carry me to the village on your back... －No thanks, for a league and a half from here!... are you mad?... －Come!... look here, my friend... act as though you've killed a roe-deer and you've got to carry it home!..

IN CHINA 8: －To think that in France, I had so much trouble in getting one of them, and here, here I am with two on my arm... what a swanky place!..

The Artists 4: Inconvenient to send a bad picture to the Salon: －They wrote above my forest! －Spinach twelve to the metre! －And me, on my magnificent study worthy of Géricault, they had the barbarity to stick this notice! this is a horse, don’t mistake it for a donkey since it will be confused with the artist!

SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 6: －Surely not,... I've bagged my dog again... that's the third I've killed in two years... I'm definitely unlucky!