Chapter 87 Chapter Twenty Six

How Pagano and his companions got tired of bacon; how Gabalin hunted game They were drinking, and Gabalin said: "Saint Guenay's stomach! Can't we have some game? I'm thirsty for all this bacon. I'll get you a leg of a horse that's freshly roasted, and it's perfectly roasted." He stood up and was about to get the horse's leg, when he saw a large and respectable wild deer running out from the edge of the woods. I think it ran out of the bushes after seeing the fire set by Panurge.Immediately, like an arrow shot from a crossbow, Gabalin ran straight over, and caught up with him in a blink of an eye, and caught it while running:

Four bustards, seven herons, twenty-six gray quails, plus thirty-two red ones, sixteen pheasants, nine bamboo chickens, nineteen herons, thirty-two wild pigeons, and More than a dozen wild rabbits and more than a dozen domestic rabbits died, and no one counted them. There were also eighteen male and female teals, fifteen young wild boars, two badgers, and three big foxes. Gabalin slashed the deer's head with a machete, killed the deer, and then carried the hare, teal and wild boar together and brought them back. From a distance where the sound was just heard, Gabalin shouted: "Banurge, my friend, prepare vinegar! Prepare vinegar!"

The good Pagoda thought he was sick, so he ordered vinegar to be prepared for him.But Panurge knew that he had hares on the hook, and he told the venerable Panguy how Gabalin had a stag on his neck, and hares all around his waist. Immediately, after the names of the nine muses, Abesdemon made nine beautiful wooden forks in the ancient style; Make a grate; tell the captive to roast, and use the burning cavalry to roast their venison.Then, pour a lot of vinegar and eat it.Whoever is polite is unlucky!The way they gobbled it up was also a pleasure to watch. Then Paguguay said: "I wish you each had two sets of eagle bells under your mouths, and I'll hang the bells of René, Poitiers, Tours, and Gambry myself, so that we can see our jawbones." How loud it is when it moves."

① A curse word, "Quenet" (Quenet) may come from the old French quenne, meaning: "gum bone." ① On the first edition here is: qui ja estoyent horsde page, which means: "Everyone is fat and big." ② Cooking hares requires vinegar, and Gabalin calls for vinegar to tell people that he has hares. ③ Muses: The daughters of Jupiter in mythology, there are nine in total, and they are the goddesses of literature, art, poetry, etc. ④ There is a bell on the bell tower of René that weighs more than 40,000 jin; there are three bells in Poitiers, one of which weighs 18,600 jin; Calculated by fifteen catties per year, it is 22,800 catties in total; there are two statues on Gambry's clock, a Martin and a Martina, and the bell will ring when the hour is up.

Banuzhi said: "Now, let's think about our affairs and see how we can defeat our enemies." "That's a good idea," said Paiguguay. He turned to the prisoner and asked: "My friend, if you don't intend to be skinned alive, you have to tell us the truth, and you must not tell a lie, because I eat children. Now tell us in detail about the dispatching method, number and defensive strength of your army. Tell us the details." The captive replied: "My lord, to tell you the truth, there are three hundred giants in our army, all of them are wearing stone armor. They are very tall, but not as big as you. Get rid of a man named 'Werewolf'. They were all Cyclopoan anvils; besides there were 163,000 foot soldiers, all strong and fit for battle, all covered with ghost skins, making them invulnerable; and 11,400 Pikemen, 3,600 respect guns, and countless ballistas for siege, 94,000 engineers and 150,000 military prostitutes, all of them are beauties who surpassed the gods? ”

"This is for me," said Panurge? "There are Amazons, there are Lyons, there are Parisians, Tours, Angevins, Poitiers, Normans, Germans; It’s available in every country and in every language.” "Then," said Paiguguay, "is the king there?" "The king is here, my lord," replied the captive, "and the king is in charge, and he is Anarch, the king of the thirsty country. Everyone in the thirsty country just wants to drink water, because you have never seen such a thing done before." Thirst, such a drinker, the king's barracks are guarded by giants."

"All right," said Paiguguet, "now, boys, do you decide to come with me?" Banurge replied: "Anyone who leaves you, let him die! I have figured out how to make the enemy die like a pig, and even if I give the devil his leg, he will not escape our hands; but I am only worried about one thing." "Which one?" asked Paiguguay. Banuge said: "That's how I can play all the women over there during this afternoon without missing a single one." "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Pagoda. Gabalin said: "See the ghost of Bitena! By God, I'll have her too."

"And me!" said Osten, "haven't done it since I left Rouen, and my dick still lifts till ten or eleven every day, as hard as a hundred imps. .” "Really?" said Panurge, "then I will give you the fattest and strongest." "Why?" said Abesdemon, "you all ride horses, and let me ride the donkey? Woe to those who can't do it. We will use the right of war: Qui po-test capere capiat!" "No, no," said Panurge, "hitch your donkey to the hook, and ride like the others." Paiguguet laughed heartily, and said to them:

① Anarchy, according to the Greek, means: "Without power, without power." ① Knot the devil's legs so that he can escape faster. ② Cursing words in the area of ​​Toulouse in the south of France. ③ Means: "You all have women, leave me alone?" ④ Latin: "Take what you can." "You have calculated and calculated, but you have not thought of the master. I am afraid that before dark, I will see that you have no intention of fighting anymore, and someone else will ride on you and stab you with spears and spears." "Come on!" said Abby Simon, "I'll leave them to you to bake, to cook, to fry, or to make meat buns. There's no Xerxes in them." Many, if Herodotus and Trogus Pomponius are to be believed, Xerxes should have had three million warriors, but Themisdocles killed them with a few men. Defeated. So, you needn't worry, God!"

"Smelly! Stinky!" said Banurge, "I can wipe out all the men with my crotch alone, and then use the hole in the crotch to clean up all the women." "There, boys!" said Paiguguet; "let us go." ① Xerxes: King of Persia in the fifth century BC, who conquered Egypt and attacked Greece. ② The Roman historian Trogus Pampaunius estimated that the army of Xerxes was one million; see Chapter 10 of the second volume of his work "History of the World".The Greek historian Herodotus estimated that the army of Xerxes was 700,000; see Chapter VII, Section 70 of Herodotus' History.

③ Themis Docles: General of Athens in the fifth century BC.