They caught him, shouting: "Au voleur!"

Beside the Obelisk.

The breathless butcher cried: "A mort!"

The crowd said: "Conspuez!"

And some: "A bas!" and half a score

Responded: "Vive l'armée!"

While grim gendarmes with piercing eye,

And stern remarks about: "Canaille!"

The pig abstracted on the sly.

Such is the Gallic way!