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Penguin Island

BOOK VI
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What Father Cornemuse had foreseen took place.
That good monk was driven from the Wood of Conils.

Treasury officers confiscated his retorts and his stills, and the liquidators divided amongst them his bottles of St.Oberosian liqueur.

The pious distiller lost the annual income of three million five hundred thousand francs that his products procured for him.

Father Agaric went into exile, abandoning his school into the hands of laymen, who soon allowed it to fall into decay.

Separated from its foster-mother, the State, the Church of Penguinia withered like a plucked flower.
The victorious defenders of the innocent man now abused each other and overwhelmed each other reciprocally with insults and calumnies.


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