'He is beginning to know his fable,' she said a hundred times to her husband.

'Really,' he answered, with an air of doubt.

The honest fellow was as interested in it as his wife, and he only appeared to doubt it in order to make her triumph greater.

He knew that baby would know the fable on New Year's morn.

You Prussian beggars, you Prussian scoundrels, you bandits, and you Vandals, you have taken everything from us; you have ruined us; you are starving us; you are bombarding us; and we have a right to hate you with a royal hatred.