The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma’am Bougon, and said:—
“Ah!”
Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:—
“Le roi Coupdesabot
S’en allait à la chasse,
À la chasse aux corbeaux,
Monté sur deux échasses.
Quand on passait dessous,
On lui payait deux sous.”[31]
[THE END OF VOLUME III “MARIUS”]
VOLUME IV
SAINT-DENIS
