The curly-haired hen . 34 THE CURL Y-H AIRED HEN Everyone enjoyed them they would try to provoke onehugely. Germaine treated YoUande like a doll. She made her allsorts of fashionable clothes. The Cochin-China would bedressed sometimes like a man, sometimes like a woman. She. •V;.%-o\ had made her quite a collection of little trousers and vests,which had style, I can tell you. She had copied, too, from acircus she had seen, an English clowns costume which was mostbecoming. Nothing could be funnier than to watch this tinydwarf, to see her strut, jump, dance, coming and going, skip- YOLLANDE S TR


The curly-haired hen . 34 THE CURL Y-H AIRED HEN Everyone enjoyed them they would try to provoke onehugely. Germaine treated YoUande like a doll. She made her allsorts of fashionable clothes. The Cochin-China would bedressed sometimes like a man, sometimes like a woman. She. •V;.%-o\ had made her quite a collection of little trousers and vests,which had style, I can tell you. She had copied, too, from acircus she had seen, an English clowns costume which was mostbecoming. Nothing could be funnier than to watch this tinydwarf, to see her strut, jump, dance, coming and going, skip- YOLLANDE S TROUSSEAU 35 ping around suddenly,—one moment skittish, the next veryimportant. Petit-Jacques loved to tease her, but not roughly; he wouldpush her with his foot, and make her jump at him impatiently,looking perfectly ridiculous in her quaint dress. You couldhave sworn she was a miniature clown. Add to all this, the


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