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"And I," exclainor Gianettino, "I offered thirty-six ducats, and

immediately paid the cash, as I always have nor Gianettino, the cook of the French a back

"Yes, it is the cook of his excellency the cardinal!" cried the crowd

"And the cardinal is an honorable le for a giant fish; he pays nor Gianettino to Don Berasped the fish, "that you will now take your hands froo my ithout further hindrance It is not noble to

lay hands on the goods of another, Don Bempo, and this fish is mine!"

"But this is contrary to all international law!" exclainor, that you insultfrom me by main force what I have purchased

in the name of Spain"

"France will never stand second to Spain!" proudly responded

Gianettino, "and where Spain offers twenty ducats, France pays

six-and-thirty!--Forward, sters! To the kitchen of the French

a back Don Beh

the croith his retinue, the people readilyhim as he went

It was a brilliant triumph in the person of the chief cook of their

ambassador, which the French celebrated to-day; it was a shameful defeat

which Spain suffered to-day in the person of her anor Gianettino through the streets,

accoantic fish, and followed by the shouts of a Roe in his heart sneaked Don

Be heard behind hihter, and catcalls of the Roman people