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This cellar was so dao out, even in midsummer; an i with heavy iron andirons and cooking utensils, with one of those huge fires of e streets e s stand out so red on the opposite walls A big dog gravely seated in the ashes was turning a spit loaded with meat before the coals

Great as was the confusion, after the first glance one could distinguish in that ed around three personages already known to the reader One of these personages, fantastically accoutred in ypt and Bohes crossed, and in a loud voice was bestowing his knowledge offace which surrounded him Another rabble pressed close around our old friend, the valiant King of Thunes, armed to the teeth Clopin Trouillefou, with a very serious air and in a low voice, was regulating the distribution of an enormous cask of arms, which stood wide open in front of him and from whence poured out in profusion, axes, swords, bassinets, coats of mail, broadswords, lance-heads, arrows, and viretons, like apples and grapes fro froht sword, another a dagger with a cross--shaped hilt The very children were ar themselves, and there were even cripples in boho, in ars of the drinkers, like great beetles

An arroith a pyras, by which a rotatory motion was communicated

Finally, a third audience, the most noisy, the most jovial, and the most numerous, encuued and swore a flute-like voice, which escaped from beneath a heavy armor, complete from casque to spurs The individual who had thus screwed a whole outfit upon his body, was so hidden by his warlike accoutre was to be seen of his person save an impertinent, red, snub nose, a rosy ers and poniards, a huge sword on his hip, a rusted cross-bow at his left, and a vast jug of wine in front of hiht, a fat wench with her boso, and drinking