To steal their property is an abominable crime, swiftly discovered.

Moreover, the housewife, who individually examines all beans intended for the saucepan, would inevitably find the malefactor.
All those I have spoken to replied to my questions with a smile in which I read their lack of faith in my knowledge of insects.

"Sir," they said, "you must know that there are never grubs in the haricot bean.

It is a blessed vegetable, respected by the weevil.

The pea, the broad bean, the vetch, and the chick-pea all have their vermin; but the haricot, _lou gounflo-gus_, never.