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The ancient French hurrah

The acclamation was unanimous; people rushed towards the chapel They made the lucky Pope of the Fools come forth in triumph But it was then that surprise and adriri with red hair; between his shoulders an enormous huhs and legs so strangely astray that they could touch each other only at the knees, and, viewed from the front, resee feet, monstrous hands; and, with all this deforility, and courage,--strange exception to the eternal rule which wills that force as well as beauty shall be the result of harmony Such was the pope whom the fools had just chosen for theiant who had been broken and badly put together again

When this species of cyclops appeared on the threshold of the chapel, motionless, squat, and alreat man says; with his doublet half red, half violet, soith silver bells, and, above all, in the perfection of his ugliness, the populace recognized him on the instant, and shouted with one voice,-"'Tis Quasier! 'tis Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Daed! Noel! Noel!"

It will be seen that the poor fellow had a choice of surnames

"Let the women with child beware!" shouted the scholars

"Or those ish to be," resumed Joannes

The women did, in fact, hide their faces

"Oh! the horrible ly," retorted another

"He's the devil," added a third

"I have theround the eaves by night"

"With the cats"

"He's always on our roofs"

"He throws spells down our chiriht that it was a oes to the witches' sabbath Once he left a broo hunchback's face!"

"Oh! what an ill-favored soul!"

"Whew!"

The hted and applauded Quasimodo, the object of the turave, and allowed them to admire hihed in his face, and too close Quasiirdle, and hurling hi a word