The municipal guard taken to task, red, mortified, looked around a moment for some one upon whom to lay the blame. But the little girl said nothing more, Pignou sat quiet on his bench—All at once he perceived me, and as I was at the door of the hall, almost in the lobby, he took me by the arm and jerked me around brutally.
“What are you doing there, you?”
BOUM-BOUM
BY ARSÈNE ARNAUD CLARETIE
Jules Claretie, as he is known in the literary world, was born at Limoges in 1840, and was educated at Paris, where in 1860 he adopted journalism for a living; contributed a great variety of papers to the journals, under his own name and under the various pseudonyms of Olivier de Salin, Candide, Perdican, etc. In 1885 he became administrator of the Comédie Française, and in 1888 Member of the French Academy. He was Anatole France’s predecessor as editor of “Le Temps.”
Claretie has written a great number of works, a “History of the Revolution 1870-1871,” belles-lettres, biographies, criticism, etc. Among his novels may be mentioned the first, “Une Drôlesse,” published in 1862; “Les Muscadins,” “Monsieur le Ministre” which the author dramatized, and “L’Accusateur,” 1897.
BOUM-BOUM
BY JULES CLARETIE