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her legs greles in the air before the obstacles, sometimes them elevating  
and making with this more of dust than any horse, more of noise above  
with his eternumens and reniflemens--crac! she arrives then always first  
by one head, as just as one can it measure. And he had a small bulldog  
(bouledogue!) who, to him see, no value, not a cent; one would believe  
that to bet against him it was to steal, so much he was ordinary; but as  
soon as the game made, she becomes another dog. Her jaw inferior  
commence to project like a deck of before, his teeth themselves discover  
brilliant like some furnaces, and a dog could him tackle (le taquiner),  
him excite, him murder (le mordre), him throw two or three times over his  
shoulder, André Jackson--this was the name of the dog--André Jackson  
takes that tranquilly, as if he not himself was never expecting other  
thing, and when the bets were doubled and redoubled against him, he you  
seize the other dog just at the articulation of the leg of behind, and he  
not it leave more, not that he it masticate, you conceive, but he himself  
there shall be holding during until that one throws the sponge in the  
air, must he wait a year. Smiley gained always with this beast-là;  
unhappily they have finished by elevating a dog who no had not of feet of  
behind, because one them had sawed; and when things were at the point  
that he would, and that he came to himself throw upon his morsel  
favorite, the poor dog comprehended in an instant that he himself was  
deceived in him, and that the other dog him had. You no have never seen  
person having the air more penaud and more discouraged; he not made no  
effort to gain the combat, and was rudely shucked.  
Eh bien! this Smiley nourished some terriers à rats, and some cocks of  
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