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picked up a smattering of French ; ' when he cried pull he 

 doesn't mean pull— pull {poule) in their outlandish gibberish 

 means hen, and he mentioned it as a caution.' At this 

 point the first speaker became incoherent, and, muttering 

 something about parleyvooing frogs, he subsided for the 

 rest of the day." 



