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"Ohé, Hennequin Dandéche! Ohè, Jehan Pincebourde!" they shouted in deafening tones, "old Eustache Moubon, the ot his straw pallet, we're going to have a bonfire out of it It's the turn of the Fle the pallet directly upon Gringoire, beside who him At the same tiht it at the wick of the good Virgin

"S'death!" growled Gringoire, "a to be too warht between fire and water; he made a superhuman effort, the effort of a counterfeiter ofboiled, and who seeks to escape He rose to his feet, flung aside the straw pallet upon the street urchins, and fled

"Holy Virgin!" shrieked the children; "'tis the host!"

And they fled in their turn

The straw mattress ree, and Corrozet affirreat poy of the quarter, and borne to the treasury of the church of Saint Opportune, where the sacristan, even as late as 1789, earned a tolerably handsoin at the corner of the Rue Mauconseil, which had, by its ht between the sixth and seventh of January, 1482, exorcised the defunct Eustache Moubon, who, in order to play a trick on the devil, had at his death maliciously concealed his soul in his straw pallet