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Jasmin: Barber

CHAPTER IV
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He was now a man of substance, a man to be trusted.
The notary was also employed to convey the tenement to the prosperous Jasmin.

He ends the first part of his Souvenirs with these words: "When Pegasus kicks with a fling of his feet, He sends me to curl on my hobby horse fleet; I lose all my time, true, not paper nor notes, I write all my verse on my papillotes."{3} Endnotes to chapter IV.
{1} In Gascon Magnounet; her pet name Marie, or in French Mariette.
Madame Jasmin called herself Marie Barrere.
{2} The remaining verses are to be found in the collected edition of his works--the fourth volume of Las Papillotos, new edition, pp.

247-9, entitled A une jeune Voyayeuse.
{3} Papillotes, as we have said, are curl-papers.

Jasmin's words, in Gascon, are these: "Quand Pegazo reguiuno, et que d'un cot de pe Memboyo friza mas marotos, Perdi moun ten, es bray, mais noun pas moun pape, Boti mous beis en papillotos!".


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