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TRANSLATION
1. After several strides the camel lengthened out his long knotty legs. 2. Tartarin picked himself up. 3. He felt himself grow pale, but had to resign himself. 4. Nothing could stop him any more. 5. One by one the Arabs gesticulated and laughed like madmen. 6. Tartarin clung to the hump and collapsed on it. 7. They had to give up the camel. 8. The old Orient had something fairy-like (about it), but nothing burlesque. 9. Out of consideration for Tartarin the prince wandered from plain to plain for nearly a month. 10. However bizarre their mount was, they felt that it was picturesque.
QUESTIONS
1. Qu'est-ce que le chameau a fait? 2. Qu'est-ce qui est arrivé à Tartarin et à la chechia au bout de quelques enjambées? 3. Comment Tartarin se tenait-il sur le chameau? 4. Comment les Arabes ont-ils fait voir qu'ils s'amusaient à voir courir le chameau? 5. Tartarin se tenait-il droit? 6. Pourquoi nos tueurs ont-ils renoncé an chameau? 7. Quel était l'arrangement de la caravane? 8. Où Tartarin errait-il? 9. Quel est le caractère de l'Algérie française? 10. Comment les parfums du vieil Orient se compliquent-ils?
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TRANSLATION
1. The hero awoke at dawn and saw that his treasure was gone. 2. The next day he saw that he had been robbed for the first time. 3. He began to weep bitterly. 4. Now, it was the prince that had deserted him in the heart of Africa. 5. He was sitting there with his head in his hands; suddenly he saw the camel looking at him. 6. Tartarin was stupefied on seeing the lion come forward. 7. He was ten paces from him, and made the saint's slippers tremble. 8. Everything was there in front of him. 9. Tartarin saw the big negroes running at him. 10. He had just slain the poor tame lion.