It was like showing how to carve a strange fowl.

The way he dovetailed story into story and drew forward in panoramic procession Lufki-Humma and Epaminondas Fusilier, Zephyr Grandissime and the lady of the _lettre de cachet_, Demosthenes De Grapion and the _fille a l'hopital_, Georges De Grapion and the _fille a la cassette_, Numa Grandissime, father of the two Honores, young Nancanou and old Agricola,--the way he made them "Knit hands and beat the ground In a light, fantastic round," would have shamed the skilled volubility of Sheharazade.
"Look!" said the story-teller, summing up; "you take hanny 'istory of France an' see the hage of my familie.

Pipple talk about de Boulignys, de Sauves, de Grandpres, de Lemoynes, de St.Maxents,--bla-a-a! De Grandissimes is as hole as de dev'! What?
De mose of de Creole families is not so hold as plenty of my yallah kinfolks!" The apothecary found very soon that a little salt improved M.Raoul's statements.
But here he was, a perfect treasure, and Frowenfeld, fleeing before his illimitable talking power in order to digest in seclusion the ancestral episodes of the Grandissimes and De Grapions, laid pleasant plans for the immediate future.

To-morrow morning he would leave the shop in Raoul's care and call on M.Honore Grandissime to advise with him concerning the retention of the born artist as a drug-clerk.

To-morrow evening he would pluck courage and force his large but bashful feet up to the doorstep of Number 19 rue Bienville.