The Waldorf family . ?1 IP IB IB ©HEME, MH MM ©IP THE GOLDEN BASIN AND THE DIAMOND LANCE. /•i POOR idiot, whose name wasPeronnik, who had neither fa-ther nor mother, brother norsister, but owed every thing tothe charity of strangers, oncelived in Brittany. He wanderedabout as he pleased. If he wasthirsty, he drank at the brook; if hewas hungry, he begged some crustsfrom the farmers wife; if he wassleepy, he found a bundle of straw, andcrept into it, like a lizard. As forclothes, he was not so badly off as manyof his tribe; for his cloth breeches only wanted part 148. =^Er^p 5^r3»3 of a leg; hi
The Waldorf family . ?1 IP IB IB ©HEME, MH MM ©IP THE GOLDEN BASIN AND THE DIAMOND LANCE. /•i POOR idiot, whose name wasPeronnik, who had neither fa-ther nor mother, brother norsister, but owed every thing tothe charity of strangers, oncelived in Brittany. He wanderedabout as he pleased. If he wasthirsty, he drank at the brook; if hewas hungry, he begged some crustsfrom the farmers wife; if he wassleepy, he found a bundle of straw, andcrept into it, like a lizard. As forclothes, he was not so badly off as manyof his tribe; for his cloth breeches only wanted part 148. =^Er^p 5^r3»3 of a leg; his jacket had one whole sleeve, thoughthe other was missing; and his hat had lost nothingbut the crown. As to his occupation, poor Peron-nik had never learned a trade, but he was notwithout some skill in his own way. He could eatas much, and sleep as long as any one in the par-ish, besides being able to imitate the song of thelark so perfectly, as almost to deceive the birdsthemselves. One day Peronnik came to a farm-house whichstood on the borders of the forest of Paimpont, andas the dinner hour had been striking for some time,in his stomach, he went to the door to ask for somefood. The farmers wife was, at that moment,kneeling on the door-sill, cleaning out her saucepanwith a piece of flint; but when she heard thevoice of the idiot, she stopped, and offered him thepot; at the same time telling him, that if thepigs had thrived, she would have been able tohave given him something better than sat down on the ground, and taking thesaucepan be
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