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with the benediction of the Providence she herself of it would pull out (elle s'en 

 tirerait); and behold that without there thinking Smiley responds: "Well, I gage 

 two-and-half that she will die all of same." 



This Smiley had an animal which the boys called the nag of the quarter of hour, 

 but solely for pleasantry, you comprehend, because, well understand, she was more 

 fast as that ! [Now why that exclamation? — M. T.] And it was custom of to gain 

 of the silver with this beast, notwithstanding she was poussive, cornarde, always 

 taken of asthma, of colics or of consumption, or something of approaching. One 

 him would give two or three hundred yards at the departure, then one him passed 

 without pain ; but never at the last she not fail of herself fechauffer, of herself 

 exasperate, and she arrives herself dcartant, se defendant, her legs greles in the air 

 before the obstacles, sometimes them elevating and making with this more of dust 

 than any horse, more of noise above with his dternumens and reniflemens— crac ! 

 she arrives then always first by one head, as just as one can it measure. And he 

 had a small bull dog (boule dogue !) who, to him see, no value, not a cent; one 

 would believe that to bet against him it was to steal, so much he was ordinary; but 

 as soon as the game made, she becomes another dog. Her jaw inferior commence 

 to project like a deck of before, his teeth themselves discover brilliant like some 

 furnaces, and a dog could him tackle (le taquiner), him excite, him murder (le 

 mordre), him throw two or three times over his shoulder, Andre Jackson — this was 

 the name of the dog — Andre Jackson takes that tranquilly, as if he not himself 

 was never expecting other thing, and when the bets were doubled and redoubled 

 against him, he you sieze the other dog just at the articulation of the leg of behind^ 

 and he not it leave more, not that he it masticate, you conceive, but he himself 

 there shall be holding during until that one throws the sponge in the air, must he 

 wait a year. Smiley gained always with this beast-Ik; unhappily they have finished 

 by elevating a dog who no had not of feet of behind, because one them had sawed ; 

 and when things were at the point that he would, and that he came to himself throw 

 upon his morsel favorite, the poor dog comprehended in an instant that he himself 

 was deceived in him, and that the other dog him had. You no have never see 

 person having the air more penaud and more discouraged; he not made no effort 

 to gain the combat, and was rudely shucked. 



