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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book II.

CHAPTER 2
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There is no shadow like that of flying colours, no smoke like that of horses, no clattering like that of armour.

At this Epistemon began to smile, and said, There is no shadow like that of the kitchen, no smoke like that of pasties, and no clattering like that of goblets.

Unto which answered Panurge, There is no shadow like that of curtains, no smoke like that of women's breasts, and no clattering like that of ballocks.

Then forthwith rising up he gave a fart, a leap, and a whistle, and most joyfully cried out aloud, Ever live Pantagruel! When Pantagruel saw that, he would have done as much; but with the fart that he let the earth trembled nine leagues about, wherewith and with the corrupted air he begot above three and fifty thousand little men, ill-favoured dwarfs, and with one fisg that he let he made as many little women, crouching down, as you shall see in divers places, which never grow but like cow's tails, downwards, or, like the Limosin radishes, round.

How now! said Panurge, are your farts so fertile and fruitful?
By G--, here be brave farted men and fisgued women; let them be married together; they will beget fine hornets and dorflies.


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