Le roi Coupdesabot

S’en allait à la chasse,

À la chasse aux corbeaux⁠—

Le roi Coupdesabot S’en allait à la chasse, À la chasse aux corbeaux⁠—

At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of No. 50⁠–⁠52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man’s shoes that he was wearing than the child’s feet which he owned.

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