Page 679 of 1181 CHAPTER XXII. THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO - Les Misérables

"There's no one here."

"Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?"

"At La Force."

"Come, now! And my mother?"

"At Saint-Lazare."

"Well! And my sisters?"

"At the Madelonettes."

The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and said:--

"Ah!"

Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:--

"Le roi Coupdesabot[31]

S'en allait a la chasse,

A la chasse aux corbeaux,

Monte sur deux echasses.

Quand on passait dessous,

On lui payait deux sous."

[31] King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.

[The end of Volume III. "Marius"]

VOLUME IV.

SAINT-DENIS.

THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS

BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY

		"When anger rises, think of the consequences." Confucio