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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER IX
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I never shall see a donkey without gratefully thinking of a Prussian.

If anyone happens to fall out with his jackass, let me recommend him, instead of beating it, to slay and eat it.

Donkey is now all the fashion.

When one is asked to dinner, as an inducement one is told that there will be donkey.

The flesh of this obstinate, but weak-minded quadruped is delicious--in colour like mutton, firm and savoury.


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