The curly-haired hen . 72 THECURL Y-H AIEED HEN dream. Everything she had just seen at Sir Booums appearedbefore her, the tiniest incidents, the least important details. All the explanations, concerning the creatures in themenagerie given her by the trainer, came back to her, like anobject lesson in a curious dream. The principal person in it was Yollande. YoUande asBarnum, Yollande as trainer, Yollande holding in one hairywing a stout whip, in the other the pitchfork as a protectionagainst claws and teeth. You see here, said Yollande in a loud voice, you seehere the wild ox from Madagascar, w
The curly-haired hen . 72 THECURL Y-H AIEED HEN dream. Everything she had just seen at Sir Booums appearedbefore her, the tiniest incidents, the least important details. All the explanations, concerning the creatures in themenagerie given her by the trainer, came back to her, like anobject lesson in a curious dream. The principal person in it was Yollande. YoUande asBarnum, Yollande as trainer, Yollande holding in one hairywing a stout whip, in the other the pitchfork as a protectionagainst claws and teeth. You see here, said Yollande in a loud voice, you seehere the wild ox from Madagascar, which takes the place of. MOTHER ETIENNE S the horse. In thatcountry he is har- .^ r^nessed to small, lightvehicles which he drawsalong rapidly. This otheris a buffalo from is a Jack-of-all-trades,sometimes ridden, some-times driven, sometimes laden,sometimes yoked to the big striped animals yousee yonder are giraffes. Theirlong necks permit them, with-out having recourse to a lad-der, to eat the young shootsof the mimosa, of which theyare very fond, as well as thefresh dates which usually growat the tops of the palm-trees. In this kind of dream astrange idea was at work in thebrain of the sleeper. Withthese object lessons were min-gled strange, quaint asides. If children had long neckslike that, one couldnt keep thejam-pots out of their way byputting them on the top shelvesof the cupboard. There, went on YoUande, are the elephants. They are DREAM 73
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