How?
said Pantagruel.
Thus, said Panurge; for when with pleasure I beheld this jolly fire, jesting with myself, and saying--Ha! poor flies, ha! poor mice, you will have a bad winter of it this year; the fire is in your reeks, it is in your bed-straw--out come more than six, yea, more than thirteen hundred and eleven dogs, great and small, altogether out of the town, flying away from the fire.

At the first approach they ran all upon me, being carried on by the scent of my lecherous half-roasted flesh, and had even then devoured me in a trice, if my good angel had not well inspired me with the instruction of a remedy very sovereign against the toothache.

And wherefore, said Pantagruel, wert thou afraid of the toothache or pain of the teeth?
Wert thou not cured of thy rheums?
By Palm Sunday, said Panurge, is there any greater pain of the teeth than when the dogs have you by the legs?
But on a sudden, as my good angel directed me, I thought upon my lardons, and threw them into the midst of the field amongst them.

Then did the dogs run, and fight with one another at fair teeth which should have the lardons.

By this means they left me, and I left them also bustling with and hairing one another.