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As a kilo is two and a fifth pounds, the ature that 

 Joseph caught by the Quai de Commerce, being in the 

 third category, would cost, under the ukase, less than 

 ten cents a pound. Crabs being in the first category — 

 paapaa, — would cost about thirteen cents a pound, and 

 the succulent varo the same, whereas they were then two 

 francs, or forty cents a pound. We lovers of sea centi- 

 pedes toasted the brave governor vociferously. 



The decrees were nailed to the trees on the Broom 

 Road, in the rue de Rivoli, and in the market-place. 

 The populace were joyous, though some old wholesale 

 buyers like Lovaina questioned the wisdom of the gov- 

 ernor's edict and the effect on themselves. 



